Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two A trains 2 min apart

At Euclid Av, toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av, between 2:29 am and 2:31 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
A train
Station
Euclid Av (station A55)
Direction
toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av
Train before
train 1A 0107 207/FAR, passed 2:29:39 am
Train after
train 1A 0226+ EUC/LEF, passed 2:31:39 am
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
missed some minutes nearby, see the record

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Euclid Av toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1A 0107 201A 0226+ E2:00 am2:15 am2:30 am2:45 am3:00 am2 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1A 0107 207/FAR (before)Train 1A 0226+ EUC/LEF (after)
2:28:09 amnext stop Euclid Avnot in service yet
2:29:09 amnext stop Euclid Avnot in service yet
2:30:09 amnext stop Grant Avnot in service yet
2:31:09 amnext stop Grant Avnext stop Euclid Av
2:32:09 amnext stop 80 Stnext stop Grant Av
2:33:09 amnext stop 88 Stnext stop Grant Av

Showing 6 of 6 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-a-bunch-95499.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.