Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two G trains in the same minute

At 4 Av-9 St, toward Court Sq, between 1:06 am and 1:06 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
G train
Station
4 Av-9 St (station F23)
Direction
toward Court Sq
Train before
train 1G 2348 CHU/CRS, passed 1:06:16 am
Train after
train 1G 0043+ CHU/CRS, passed 1:06:39 am
Gap
0 min (22 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 4 Av-9 St toward Court Sq. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1G 2348 CH1G 0043+ C1G 2348 CH12:30 am12:45 am1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am0 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 4 Av-9 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1G 2348 CHU/CRS (before)Train 1G 0043+ CHU/CRS (after)
1:05:09 amnext stop Hoyt-Schermerhorn Stsnext stop 4 Av-9 St
1:06:09 amnext stop 4 Av-9 Stnext stop 4 Av-9 St
1:07:09 amnext stop Hoyt-Schermerhorn Stsnext stop Smith-9 Sts
1:08:09 amnext stop 7 Avnext stop Smith-9 Sts

Showing 4 of 4 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-g-bunch-90399.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.