Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two F trains 1 min apart

At 14 St, toward Jamaica-179 St, between 1:22 am and 1:23 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
F train
Station
14 St (station D19)
Direction
toward Jamaica-179 St
Train before
train 1F 2338+ STL/179, passed 1:22:24 am
Train after
train 1F 0021+ STL/179, passed 1:23:39 am
Gap
1 min (75 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 14 St toward Jamaica-179 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1F 2338+ S1F 0021+ S12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am2:00 am1 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 1F 2338+ STL/179 (before)Train 1F 0021+ STL/179 (after)
1:21:09 amnext stop 14 Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
1:22:09 amnext stop 14 Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
1:23:09 amnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnext stop 14 St
1:24:09 amnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnext stop 23 St
1:25:09 amnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnext stop 23 St

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-f-bunch-91419.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.