Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

28 min with no 2 train

At 3 Av-149 St, toward Wakefield-241 St, between 8:24 pm and 8:52 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.

Line
2 train
Station
3 Av-149 St (station 221)
Direction
toward Wakefield-241 St
Train before
train 02 1921+ FLA/241, passed 8:24:39 pm
Train after
train /2 1936 FLA/241, passed 8:52:39 pm
Gap
28 min (1680 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 3 Av-149 St toward Wakefield-241 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen02 1921+ F/2 1936 F7:45 pm8:00 pm8:15 pm8:30 pm8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm28 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 3 Av-149 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 02 1921+ FLA/241 (before)Train /2 1936 FLA/241 (after)
8:23:09 pmnext stop 149 St-Hostosnext stop 14 St
8:25:09 pmnext stop Jackson Avnext stop 34 St-Penn Station
8:27:09 pmnext stop Prospect Avnext stop Times Sq-42 St
8:29:09 pmnext stop Intervale Avnext stop Times Sq-42 St
8:31:09 pmnext stop Freeman Stnext stop 72 St
8:33:09 pmnext stop 174 Stnext stop 72 St
8:35:09 pmnext stop West Farms Sq-E Tremont Avnext stop 96 St
8:37:09 pmnext stop E 180 Stnext stop 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
8:39:09 pmnext stop E 180 Stnext stop 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
8:41:09 pmnext stop Bronx Park Eastnext stop 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
8:43:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynext stop 116 St
8:45:09 pmnext stop Allerton Avnext stop 125 St
8:47:09 pmnext stop Gun Hill Rdnext stop 135 St
8:49:09 pmnext stop 219 Stnext stop 149 St-Hostos
8:51:09 pmnext stop 233 Stnext stop 3 Av-149 St
8:53:09 pmnext stop Nereid Avnext stop Jackson Av

Showing 16 of 32 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-2-gap-75159.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.