Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

44 min with no 4 train

At Nostrand Av, toward New Lots Av, between 10:59 pm and 11:43 pm. The schedule called for a train every 14 min.

Line
4 train
Station
Nostrand Av (station 248)
Direction
toward New Lots Av
Train before
train 04 2146+ WDL/UTI, passed 10:59:39 pm
Train after
train E4 2222+ WDL/NLT, passed 11:43:39 pm
Gap
44 min (2640 s)
Scheduled gap
14 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

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

ScheduledSeen04 2146+ WE4 2222+ W10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm12:00 am12:15 am44 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 04 2146+ WDL/UTI (before)Train E4 2222+ WDL/NLT (after)
10:58:09 pmnext stop Nostrand Avnot in service yet
11:01:09 pmnext stop Kingston Avnot in service yet
11:04:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:07:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:10:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:13:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:16:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:19:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:22:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:25:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:28:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:31:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:34:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:37:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:40:09 pmtrip finishednot in service yet
11:43:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Nostrand Av

Showing 16 of 48 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-4-gap-85419.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.