Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

47 min with no A train

At 88 St, toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av, between 11:51 pm and 12:38 am. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
A train
Station
88 St (station A60)
Direction
toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av
Train before
train 1A 2230 207/FAR, passed 11:51:39 pm
Train after
train 1A 2242 207/LEF, passed 12:38:39 am
Gap
47 min (2820 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 88 St toward Far Rockaway-Mott Av. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1A 2230 201A 2242 2011:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm12:00 am12:15 am12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am47 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 88 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1A 2230 207/FAR (before)Train 1A 2242 207/LEF (after)
11:50:09 pmnext stop 80 Stnext stop High St
11:53:09 pmnext stop Rockaway Blvdnext stop High St
11:56:09 pmnext stop Aqueduct-N Conduit Avnext stop High St
11:59:09 pmnext stop Broad Channelnext stop High St
12:02:09 amnext stop Broad Channelnext stop High St
12:05:09 amnext stop Beach 67 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
12:08:09 amnext stop Beach 67 Stnext stop Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts
12:11:09 amnext stop Beach 44 Stnext stop Nostrand Av
12:14:09 amnext stop Beach 25 Stnext stop Nostrand Av
12:17:09 amtrip finishednext stop Utica Av
12:20:09 amtrip finishednext stop Broadway Junction
12:23:09 amtrip finishednext stop Broadway Junction
12:26:09 amtrip finishednext stop Liberty Av
12:29:09 amtrip finishednext stop Shepherd Av
12:32:09 amtrip finishednext stop Euclid Av
12:35:09 amtrip finishednext stop 80 St

Showing 16 of 51 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-a-gap-88719.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.