Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two 3 trains 2 min apart

At Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, toward New Lots Av, between 9:05 pm and 9:07 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
3 train
Station
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd (station 251)
Direction
toward New Lots Av
Train before
train 03 2006 148/NLT, passed 9:05:39 pm
Train after
train 03 2012+ 148/NLT, passed 9:07:39 pm
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Sutter Av-Rutland Rd toward New Lots Av. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen03 2006 103 2012+ 18:30 pm8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm2 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Sutter Av-Rutland Rd when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 03 2006 148/NLT (before)Train 03 2012+ 148/NLT (after)
9:04:09 pmnext stop Sutter Av-Rutland Rdnext stop Crown Hts-Utica Av
9:05:09 pmnext stop Sutter Av-Rutland Rdnext stop Crown Hts-Utica Av
9:06:09 pmnext stop Saratoga Avnext stop Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
9:07:09 pmnext stop Saratoga Avnext stop Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
9:08:09 pmnext stop Rockaway Avnext stop Saratoga Av
9:09:09 pmnext stop Junius Stnext stop Saratoga Av

Showing 6 of 6 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-3-bunch-76059.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.