Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

31 min with no J train

At Woodhaven Blvd, toward Broad St, between 9:55 pm and 10:26 pm. The schedule called for a train every 15 min.

Line
J train
Station
Woodhaven Blvd (station J15)
Direction
toward Broad St
Train before
train 1J 2145 P-A/BRD, passed 9:55:39 pm
Train after
train 1J 2215 P-A/BRD, passed 10:26:39 pm
Gap
31 min (1860 s)
Scheduled gap
15 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Woodhaven Blvd toward Broad St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1J 2145 P-1J 2215 P-9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm31 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1J 2145 P-A/BRD (before)Train 1J 2215 P-A/BRD (after)
9:54:09 pmnext stop 104 Stnot in service yet
9:56:09 pmnext stop 85 St-Forest Pkwynot in service yet
9:58:09 pmnext stop 75 St-Elderts Lnnot in service yet
10:00:09 pmnext stop Cypress Hillsnot in service yet
10:02:09 pmnext stop Crescent Stnot in service yet
10:04:09 pmnext stop Crescent Stnot in service yet
10:06:09 pmnext stop Cleveland Stnot in service yet
10:08:09 pmnext stop Van Siclen Avnot in service yet
10:10:09 pmnext stop Alabama Avnot in service yet
10:12:09 pmnext stop Broadway Junctionnot in service yet
10:14:09 pmnext stop Chauncey Stnot in service yet
10:16:09 pmnext stop Halsey Stnot in service yet
10:18:09 pmnext stop Gates Avnext stop Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport
10:20:09 pmnext stop Myrtle Avnext stop 121 St
10:22:09 pmnext stop Flushing Avnext stop 111 St
10:24:09 pmnext stop Hewes Stnext stop 104 St

Showing 16 of 35 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-j-gap-80799.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.