Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

26 min with no E train

At 14 St, toward World Trade Center, between 12:03 am and 12:29 am. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
E train
Station
14 St (station A31)
Direction
toward World Trade Center
Train before
train 1E 2319 P-A/WTC, passed 12:03:39 am
Train after
train 1E 2331 P-A/WTC, passed 12:29:39 am
Gap
26 min (1560 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 14 St toward World Trade Center. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1E 2319 P-1E 2331 P-11:30 pm11:45 pm12:00 am12:15 am12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am26 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 14 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1E 2319 P-A/WTC (before)Train 1E 2331 P-A/WTC (after)
12:02:09 amnext stop 23 Stnext stop Steinway St
12:04:09 amnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sqnext stop 36 St
12:06:09 amnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sqnext stop Queens Plaza
12:08:09 amnext stop Spring Stnext stop Court Sq-23 St
12:10:09 amnext stop Canal Stnext stop Lexington Av/53 St
12:12:09 amtrip finishednext stop Lexington Av/53 St
12:14:09 amtrip finishednext stop Lexington Av/53 St
12:16:09 amtrip finishednext stop Lexington Av/53 St
12:18:09 amtrip finishednext stop 5 Av/53 St
12:20:09 amtrip finishednext stop 7 Av
12:22:09 amtrip finishednext stop 50 St
12:24:09 amtrip finishednext stop 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal
12:26:09 amtrip finishednext stop 34 St-Penn Station
12:28:09 amtrip finishednext stop 14 St
12:30:09 amtrip finishednext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq

Showing 15 of 30 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-e-gap-88179.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.