Timetable Test

Bunched trains · Chicago · Sat Oct 10

Two Green Line trains 1 min apart

At California (Green), toward Harlem/Lake, between 8:32 pm and 8:33 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.

Line
Green Line
Station
California (Green) (station 41360)
Direction
toward Harlem/Lake
Train before
run 617, passed 8:32:39 pm
Train after
run 611, passed 8:33:54 pm
Gap
1 min (75 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at California (Green) toward Harlem/Lake. The two runs either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen6176118:00 pm8:15 pm8:30 pm8:45 pm9:00 pm1 min gap

What Train Tracker said

Train Tracker reports each train's next stop. A train has passed California (Green) when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotRun 617 (before)Run 611 (after)
8:31:09 pmnext stop California (Green)next stop Ashland (Green/Pink)
8:32:09 pmnext stop California (Green)next stop Damen (Green)
8:33:09 pmnext stop Kedzie (Green)next stop Damen (Green)
8:34:09 pmnext stop Kedzie (Green)next stop Kedzie (Green)
8:35:09 pmnext stop Pulaski (Green)next stop California (Green)

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-green-bunch-74034.json.

Check it yourself

Scheduled times come from CTA's GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from Train Tracker, polled once a minute. The raw records above are exactly what CTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.