Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two 2 trains in the same minute

At 225 St, toward Wakefield-241 St, between 9:17 pm and 9:17 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
2 train
Station
225 St (station 206)
Direction
toward Wakefield-241 St
Train before
train /2 1936 FLA/241, passed 9:17:39 pm
Train after
train /2 1929+ FLA/241, passed 9:17:59 pm
Gap
0 min (20 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 225 St toward Wakefield-241 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen/2 1936 F/2 1929+ F8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm0 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 225 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain /2 1936 FLA/241 (before)Train /2 1929+ FLA/241 (after)
9:16:09 pmnext stop 219 Stnext stop Gun Hill Rd
9:17:09 pmnext stop 225 Stnext stop Gun Hill Rd
9:18:09 pmnext stop 233 Stnext stop 233 St
9:19:09 pmnext stop 233 Stnot in the feed

Showing 4 of 4 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-2-bunch-76679.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.