Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two C trains 2 min apart

At Liberty Av, toward Euclid Av, between 7:23 pm and 7:25 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
C train
Station
Liberty Av (station A52)
Direction
toward Euclid Av
Train before
train 1C 1808 168/EUC, passed 7:23:38 pm
Train after
train 1C 1820 168/EUC, passed 7:25:38 pm
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
missed some minutes nearby, see the record

Scheduled against seen

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

ScheduledSeen1C 1808 161C 1820 166:45 pm7:00 pm7:15 pm7:30 pm7:45 pm8:00 pm2 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1C 1808 168/EUC (before)Train 1C 1820 168/EUC (after)
7:22:08 pmnext stop Liberty Avnext stop Broadway Junction
7:23:08 pmnext stop Liberty Avnext stop Broadway Junction
7:24:08 pmnext stop Van Siclen Avnext stop Liberty Av
7:25:08 pmnext stop Shepherd Avnext stop Liberty Av
7:26:08 pmnext stop Shepherd Avnext stop Van Siclen Av
7:27:08 pmtrip finishednext stop Shepherd 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-c-bunch-69938.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.