Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10
Two C trains 3 min apart
At 59 St-Columbus Circle, toward Euclid Av, between 9:16 pm and 9:19 pm. The schedule called for a train every 14 min.
- Line
- C train
- Station
- 59 St-Columbus Circle (station A24)
- Direction
- toward Euclid Av
- Train before
- train 1C 2108 168/EUC, passed 9:16:39 pm
- Train after
- train 1C 2054+ 168/EUC, passed 9:19:39 pm
- Gap
- 3 min (180 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 14 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at 59 St-Columbus Circle toward Euclid Av. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.
What the MTA feed said
The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 59 St-Columbus Circle when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Train 1C 2108 168/EUC (before) | Train 1C 2054+ 168/EUC (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15:09 pm | next stop 125 St | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle |
| 9:16:09 pm | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle |
| 9:17:09 pm | next stop 125 St | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle |
| 9:18:09 pm | next stop 125 St | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle |
| 9:19:09 pm | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle |
| 9:20:09 pm | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle | next stop 50 St |
| 9:21:09 pm | next stop 59 St-Columbus Circle | next stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal |
Showing 7 of 7 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-c-bunch-76779.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.