Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

24 min with no 1 train

At 191 St, toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St, between 8:46 pm and 9:10 pm. The schedule called for a train every 6 min.

Line
1 train
Station
191 St (station 110)
Direction
toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St
Train before
train 01 1959 SFT/242, passed 8:46:39 pm
Train after
train /1 2017 SFT/242, passed 9:10:39 pm
Gap
24 min (1440 s)
Scheduled gap
6 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 191 St toward Van Cortlandt Park-242 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen01 1959 S/1 2017 S8:15 pm8:30 pm8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm24 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 191 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 01 1959 SFT/242 (before)Train /1 2017 SFT/242 (after)
8:45:09 pmnext stop 181 Stnot in service yet
8:47:09 pmnext stop Dyckman Stnot in service yet
8:49:09 pmnext stop 207 Stnot in service yet
8:51:09 pmnext stop 215 Stnot in service yet
8:53:09 pmnext stop 231 Stnot in service yet
8:55:09 pmnext stop 238 Stnot in service yet
8:57:09 pmnext stop Van Cortlandt Park-242 Stnext stop 125 St
8:59:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 137 St-City College
9:01:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 168 St-Washington Hts
9:03:09 pmtrip finishednot in the feed
9:05:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 168 St-Washington Hts
9:07:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 181 St
9:09:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 191 St
9:11:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Dyckman St

Showing 14 of 28 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-1-gap-76239.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.