Timetable Test

Bunched trains · Chicago · Sat Oct 10

Two Red Line trains 2 min apart

At Sox-35th, toward 95th/Dan Ryan, between 1:56 am and 1:58 am. The schedule called for a train every 15 min.

Line
Red Line
Station
Sox-35th (station 40190)
Direction
toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Train before
run 938, passed 1:56:39 am
Train after
run 925, passed 1:58:39 am
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
15 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Sox-35th toward 95th/Dan Ryan. The two runs either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen9389251:30 am1:45 am2:00 am2:15 am2:30 am2 min gap

What Train Tracker said

Train Tracker reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Sox-35th when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotRun 938 (before)Run 925 (after)
1:55:09 amnext stop Sox-35thnext stop Cermak-Chinatown
1:56:09 amnext stop Sox-35thnext stop Sox-35th
1:57:09 amnext stop 47th (Red)next stop Sox-35th
1:58:09 amnext stop 47th (Red)next stop Sox-35th
1:59:09 amnext stop Garfield (Red)next stop 47th (Red)
2:00:09 amnext stop Garfield (Red)next stop 47th (Red)

Showing 6 of 6 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-red-bunch-93519.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.