Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two M trains 1 min apart

At Lorimer St, toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av, between 8:00 pm and 8:01 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.

Line
M train
Station
Lorimer St (station M13)
Direction
toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av
Train before
train 1M 1915 962/MET, passed 8:00:38 pm
Train after
train 1M 1925 962/MET, passed 8:01:38 pm
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
missed some minutes nearby, see the record

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Lorimer St toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1M 1915 961M 1925 967:30 pm7:45 pm8:00 pm8:15 pm8:30 pm1 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1M 1915 962/MET (before)Train 1M 1925 962/MET (after)
7:59:08 pmnext stop Lorimer Stnext stop Hewes St
8:00:08 pmnext stop Lorimer Stnext stop Lorimer St
8:01:08 pmnext stop Flushing Avnext stop Lorimer St
8:02:08 pmnext stop Flushing Avnext stop Flushing Av
8:03:08 pmnext stop Flushing Avnext stop Flushing Av

Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-m-bunch-72098.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.