Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

50 min with no 5 train

At Gun Hill Rd, toward Bowling Green, between 10:18 pm and 11:08 pm. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
5 train
Station
Gun Hill Rd (station 503)
Direction
toward Bowling Green
Train before
train 05 0613 DYR/BWG, passed 10:18:24 pm
Train after
train 05 2302 DYR/180, passed 11:08:09 pm
Gap
50 min (2985 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Gun Hill Rd toward Bowling Green. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen05 0613 D05 2302 D9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm50 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Gun Hill Rd when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 05 0613 DYR/BWG (before)Train 05 2302 DYR/180 (after)
10:17:09 pmnot in service yetnot in service yet
10:20:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:23:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:26:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:29:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:32:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:35:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:38:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:41:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:44:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
10:47:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:50:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:53:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:56:09 pmnext stop Pelham Pkwynot in service yet
10:59:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet
11:02:09 pmnot in the feednot in service yet

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-83289.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.