Timetable Test

Bunched trains · Chicago · Sat Oct 10

Two Red Line trains 1 min apart

At Argyle, toward Howard, between 1:23 am and 1:24 am. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
Red Line
Station
Argyle (station 41200)
Direction
toward Howard
Train before
run 942, passed 1:23:39 am
Train after
run 925, passed 1:24:59 am
Gap
1 min (80 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Argyle toward Howard. The two runs either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen92594292512:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am2:00 am1 min gap

What Train Tracker said

Train Tracker reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Argyle when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotRun 942 (before)Run 925 (after)
1:22:09 amnext stop Lawrencenext stop Granville
1:23:09 amnext stop Argylenext stop Thorndale
1:24:09 amnext stop Berwynnext stop Wilson
1:25:09 amnext stop Berwynnext stop Berwyn
1:26:09 amnext stop Bryn Mawrnext stop Argyle

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-red-bunch-91499.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.