Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10
Two E trains 1 min apart
At 34 St-Penn Station, toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer, between 7:53 pm and 7:54 pm. The schedule called for a train every 13 min.
- Line
- E train
- Station
- 34 St-Penn Station (station A28)
- Direction
- toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer
- Train before
- train 1E 1956 WTC/P-A, passed 7:53:38 pm
- Train after
- train 1E 1943 WTC/P-A, passed 7:54:38 pm
- Gap
- 1 min (60 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 13 min
- Collector
- missed some minutes nearby, see the record
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at 34 St-Penn Station toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer. 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 34 St-Penn Station when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Train 1E 1956 WTC/P-A (before) | Train 1E 1943 WTC/P-A (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:52:08 pm | next stop Canal St | next stop 23 St |
| 7:53:08 pm | next stop 34 St-Penn Station | next stop 34 St-Penn Station |
| 7:54:08 pm | next stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal | next stop 34 St-Penn Station |
| 7:55:08 pm | next stop 50 St | next stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal |
| 7:56:08 pm | next stop 50 St | next stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal |
Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-e-bunch-71678.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.