Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

50 min with no 5 train

At 125 St, toward Eastchester-Dyre Av, between 10:03 pm and 10:53 pm. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
5 train
Station
125 St (station 621)
Direction
toward Eastchester-Dyre Av
Train before
train 05 2133 BWG/DYR, passed 10:03:39 pm
Train after
train 05 2213 BWG/DYR, passed 10:53:09 pm
Gap
50 min (2970 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 125 St toward Eastchester-Dyre Av. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen05 2133 B05 2213 B9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm50 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 125 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 05 2133 BWG/DYR (before)Train 05 2213 BWG/DYR (after)
10:02:09 pmnext stop 116 Stnot in service yet
10:05:09 pmnext stop 138 St-Grand Concoursenot in service yet
10:08:09 pmnext stop 149 St-Hostosnot in service yet
10:11:09 pmnext stop 3 Av-149 Stnot in service yet
10:14:09 pmnext stop Jackson Avnext stop Wall St
10:17:09 pmnext stop Intervale Avnext stop Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall
10:20:09 pmnext stop Freeman Stnext stop 14 St-Union Sq
10:23:09 pmnext stop West Farms Sq-E Tremont Avnext stop Grand Central-42 St
10:26:09 pmnot in the feednot in the feed
10:29:09 pmnot in the feednot in the feed
10:32:09 pmnot in the feednot in the feed
10:35:09 pmtrip finishednot in the feed
10:38:09 pmtrip finishednot in the feed
10:41:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 103 St
10:44:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 103 St
10:47:09 pmtrip finishednot in the feed

Showing 16 of 54 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-5-gap-82389.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.