Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

27 min with no A train

At Spring St, toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av, between 11:39 pm and 12:06 am. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
A train
Station
Spring St (station A33)
Direction
toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av
Train before
train 1A 2254 207/FAR, passed 11:39:39 pm
Train after
train 1A 2318 207/FAR, passed 12:06:39 am
Gap
27 min (1620 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

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

ScheduledSeen1A 2254 201A 2318 2011:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm12:00 am12:15 am12:30 am12:45 am27 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1A 2254 207/FAR (before)Train 1A 2318 207/FAR (after)
11:38:09 pmnext stop Spring Stnext stop 125 St
11:40:09 pmnext stop Canal Stnext stop 59 St-Columbus Circle
11:42:09 pmnext stop Chambers Stnext stop 59 St-Columbus Circle
11:44:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 59 St-Columbus Circle
11:46:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 59 St-Columbus Circle
11:48:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 59 St-Columbus Circle
11:50:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 50 St
11:52:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal
11:54:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 34 St-Penn Station
11:56:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 23 St
11:58:09 pmnext stop Fulton Stnext stop 14 St
12:00:09 amnext stop Fulton Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
12:02:09 amnext stop Fulton Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
12:04:09 amnext stop Fulton Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
12:06:09 amnext stop Fulton Stnext stop Spring St
12:08:09 amnext stop High Stnext stop Canal St

Showing 16 of 31 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-a-gap-86799.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.