Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10
21 min with no 4 train
At 86 St, toward Woodlawn, between 8:07 pm and 8:28 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.
- Line
- 4 train
- Station
- 86 St (station 626)
- Direction
- toward Woodlawn
- Train before
- train 04 1932+ UTI/WDL, passed 8:07:38 pm
- Train after
- train 04 1940+ UTI/WDL, passed 8:28:39 pm
- Gap
- 21 min (1261 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 10 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at 86 St toward Woodlawn. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.
What the MTA feed said
The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 86 St when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Train 04 1932+ UTI/WDL (before) | Train 04 1940+ UTI/WDL (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:06:08 pm | next stop 77 St | next stop Fulton St |
| 8:07:08 pm | next stop 86 St | next stop Fulton St |
| 8:08:08 pm | next stop 96 St | next stop Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall |
| 8:09:08 pm | next stop 96 St | next stop Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall |
| 8:10:08 pm | next stop 103 St | next stop 14 St-Union Sq |
| 8:11:08 pm | next stop 110 St | next stop 14 St-Union Sq |
| 8:12:08 pm | next stop 110 St | next stop 14 St-Union Sq |
| 8:13:08 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop 14 St-Union Sq |
| 8:14:08 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop 14 St-Union Sq |
| 8:15:09 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop Grand Central-42 St |
| 8:16:09 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop Grand Central-42 St |
| 8:17:09 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop Grand Central-42 St |
| 8:18:09 pm | next stop 116 St | next stop Grand Central-42 St |
| 8:19:09 pm | next stop 125 St | next stop 51 St |
| 8:20:09 pm | next stop 125 St | next stop 51 St |
| 8:21:09 pm | next stop 138 St-Grand Concourse | next stop 59 St |
Showing 16 of 25 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-4-gap-73719.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.