Timetable Test

Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10

38 min with no Red Line train

At Jarvis, toward 95th/Dan Ryan, between 12:40 am and 1:18 am. The schedule called for a train every 15 min.

Line
Red Line
Station
Jarvis (station 41190)
Direction
toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Train before
run 923, passed 12:40:24 am
Train after
run 938, passed 1:18:24 am
Gap
38 min (2280 s)
Scheduled gap
15 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Jarvis toward 95th/Dan Ryan. The two runs either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen92393812:15 am12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am38 min gap

What Train Tracker said

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

SnapshotRun 923 (before)Run 938 (after)
12:39:09 amnot in service yetnext stop Morse
12:42:09 amnext stop Morsenext stop Howard
12:45:09 amnext stop Granvillenot in the feed
12:48:09 amnext stop Bryn Mawrnot in the feed
12:51:09 amnext stop Lawrencenot in the feed
12:54:09 amnext stop Sheridannot in the feed
12:57:09 amnext stop Addison (Red)not in the feed
1:00:09 amnext stop Fullertonnot in the feed
1:03:09 amnext stop North/Clybournnot in the feed
1:06:09 amnext stop Clark/Divisionnot in the feed
1:09:09 amnext stop Chicago (Red)not in the feed
1:12:09 amnext stop Lake (Subway)not in the feed
1:15:09 amnext stop Harrisonnot in the feed
1:18:09 amnext stop Cermak-Chinatownnot in the feed

Showing 14 of 42 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-red-gap-91104.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.