Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two 6 trains 1 min apart

At Bleecker St, toward Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, between 9:57 pm and 9:58 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.

Line
6 train
Station
Bleecker St (station 637)
Direction
toward Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall
Train before
train 06 2120 MOT/BBR, passed 9:57:39 pm
Train after
train 06 2127+ MOT/BBR, passed 9:58:39 pm
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Bleecker St toward Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen06 2120 M06 2127+ M9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm1 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 06 2120 MOT/BBR (before)Train 06 2127+ MOT/BBR (after)
9:56:09 pmnext stop Bleecker Stnext stop Astor Pl
9:57:09 pmnext stop Bleecker Stnext stop Astor Pl
9:58:09 pmnext stop Spring Stnext stop Bleecker St
9:59:09 pmnext stop Canal Stnext stop Spring St
10:00:09 pmnext stop Brooklyn Bridge-City Hallnext stop Canal St

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-6-bunch-79119.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.