Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two 1 trains 3 min apart

At 23 St, toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St, between 1:22 am and 1:25 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
1 train
Station
23 St (station 130)
Direction
toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St
Train before
train 01 0103 SFT/242, passed 1:22:39 am
Train after
train 01 0112 SFT/242, passed 1:25:39 am
Gap
3 min (180 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 23 St toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen01 0103 S01 0112 S12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am2:00 am3 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 23 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 01 0103 SFT/242 (before)Train 01 0112 SFT/242 (after)
1:21:09 amnext stop 23 Stnext stop Christopher St-Stonewall
1:22:09 amnext stop 23 Stnext stop 14 St
1:23:09 amnext stop 28 Stnext stop 14 St
1:24:09 amnext stop 34 St-Penn Stationnext stop 18 St
1:25:09 amnext stop Times Sq-42 Stnext stop 23 St
1:26:09 amnext stop Times Sq-42 Stnext stop 28 St
1:27:09 amnext stop 50 Stnext stop 34 St-Penn Station

Showing 7 of 7 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-1-bunch-91539.json.

Check it yourself

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