Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10
Two J trains 1 min apart
At Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport, toward Broad St, between 12:09 am and 12:10 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.
- Line
- J train
- Station
- Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport (station G06)
- Direction
- toward Broad St
- Train before
- train 1J 0008+ P-A/BRD, passed 12:09:39 am
- Train after
- train 1J 2350+ P-A/BRD, passed 12:10:39 am
- Gap
- 1 min (60 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 20 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport toward Broad St. 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 Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Train 1J 0008+ P-A/BRD (before) | Train 1J 2350+ P-A/BRD (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 12:08:09 am | next stop Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer | next stop Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer |
| 12:09:09 am | next stop Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport | next stop Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport |
| 12:10:09 am | next stop 121 St | next stop Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport |
| 12:11:09 am | next stop 121 St | next stop 121 St |
| 12:12:09 am | next stop 121 St | next stop 121 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-j-bunch-87039.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.