Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two 6 trains 1 min apart

At 68 St-Hunter College, toward 149 St-Hostos, between 12:45 am and 12:46 am. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
6 train
Station
68 St-Hunter College (station 628)
Direction
toward 149 St-Hostos
Train before
train E6 0016 BBR/MOT, passed 12:45:39 am
Train after
train 06 0021 BBR/MOT, passed 12:46:39 am
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 68 St-Hunter College toward 149 St-Hostos. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeenE6 0016 B06 0021 B12:15 am12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 68 St-Hunter College when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain E6 0016 BBR/MOT (before)Train 06 0021 BBR/MOT (after)
12:44:09 amnext stop 68 St-Hunter Collegenext stop 59 St
12:45:09 amnext stop 68 St-Hunter Collegenext stop 59 St
12:46:09 amnext stop 77 Stnext stop 68 St-Hunter College
12:47:09 amnext stop 86 Stnext stop 77 St
12:48:09 amnext stop 86 Stnext stop 77 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-89199.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.