Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

62 min with no 3 train

At Chambers St, toward New Lots Av, between 10:11 pm and 11:13 pm. The schedule called for a train every 19 min.

Line
3 train
Station
Chambers St (station 137)
Direction
toward New Lots Av
Train before
train 03 2144+ 148/NLT, passed 10:11:39 pm
Train after
train 03 2245+ 148/NLT, passed 11:13:09 pm
Gap
62 min (3690 s)
Scheduled gap
19 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Chambers St toward New Lots Av. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen03 2144+ 103 2245+ 19:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm62 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 03 2144+ 148/NLT (before)Train 03 2245+ 148/NLT (after)
10:10:09 pmnext stop Chambers Stnot in service yet
10:14:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnot in service yet
10:18:09 pmnext stop Clark Stnot in service yet
10:22:09 pmnext stop Hoyt Stnot in service yet
10:26:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:30:09 pmnext stop Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museumnot in service yet
10:34:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:38:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:42:09 pmnext stop Saratoga Avnot in service yet
10:46:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
10:50:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
10:54:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 96 St
10:58:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 72 St
11:02:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Times Sq-42 St
11:06:09 pmtrip finishednot in the feed
11:10:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Chambers St

Showing 16 of 66 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-3-gap-83589.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.