Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two D trains 1 min apart

At Grand St, toward Norwood-205 St, between 9:18 pm and 9:19 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
D train
Station
Grand St (station D22)
Direction
toward Norwood-205 St
Train before
train 1D 2031+ STL/205, passed 9:18:39 pm
Train after
train 1D 2048+ STL/205, passed 9:19:39 pm
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Grand St toward Norwood-205 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1D 2031+ S1D 2048+ S1D 2048+ S8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm1 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1D 2031+ STL/205 (before)Train 1D 2048+ STL/205 (after)
9:17:09 pmnext stop Grand Stnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:18:09 pmnext stop Grand Stnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:19:09 pmnext stop Broadway-Lafayette Stnext stop Grand St
9:20:09 pmnext stop Broadway-Lafayette Stnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:21:09 pmnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sqnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-d-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.