Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

38 min with no F train

At 34 St-Herald Sq, toward Jamaica-179 St, between 12:22 am and 1:00 am. The schedule called for a train every 14 min.

Line
F train
Station
34 St-Herald Sq (station D17)
Direction
toward Jamaica-179 St
Train before
train 1F 2326+ STL/179, passed 12:22:39 am
Train after
train 1F 0007+ STL/179, passed 1:00:39 am
Gap
38 min (2280 s)
Scheduled gap
14 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 34 St-Herald Sq toward Jamaica-179 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1F 2326+ S1F 0007+ S11:45 pm12:00 am12:15 am12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am38 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 34 St-Herald Sq when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1F 2326+ STL/179 (before)Train 1F 0007+ STL/179 (after)
12:21:09 amnext stop 23 Stnext stop Avenue I
12:24:09 amnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop Ditmas Av
12:27:09 amnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop Church Av
12:30:09 amnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop 7 Av
12:33:09 amnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop Jay St-MetroTech
12:36:09 amnext stop 42 St-Bryant Pknext stop Jay St-MetroTech
12:39:09 amnext stop 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctrnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
12:42:09 amnext stop Lexington Av/63 Stnext stop East Broadway
12:45:09 amnext stop Roosevelt Islandnext stop Delancey St-Essex St
12:48:09 amnext stop 21 St-Queensbridgenext stop 2 Av
12:51:09 amnext stop 36 Stnext stop W 4 St-Wash Sq
12:54:09 amnext stop Steinway Stnext stop 14 St
12:57:09 amnext stop 46 Stnext stop 34 St-Herald Sq
1:00:09 amnext stop Northern Blvdnext stop 34 St-Herald Sq

Showing 14 of 42 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-f-gap-90039.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.