Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10
Two M trains 3 min apart
At Delancey St-Essex St, toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av, between 11:29 pm and 11:32 pm. The schedule called for a train every 14 min.
- Line
- M train
- Station
- Delancey St-Essex St (station M18)
- Direction
- toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av
- Train before
- train $M 2330 ESX/MET, passed 11:29:39 pm
- Train after
- train 1M 2259 962/MET, passed 11:32:39 pm
- Gap
- 3 min (180 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 14 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Delancey St-Essex St toward Middle Village-Metropolitan Av. 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 Delancey St-Essex St when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Train $M 2330 ESX/MET (before) | Train 1M 2259 962/MET (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:28:09 pm | not in service yet | next stop Broadway-Lafayette St |
| 11:29:09 pm | next stop Delancey St-Essex St | next stop Delancey St-Essex St |
| 11:30:09 pm | next stop M17 | next stop Delancey St-Essex St |
| 11:31:09 pm | next stop M17 | next stop Delancey St-Essex St |
| 11:32:09 pm | next stop M17 | next stop Delancey St-Essex St |
| 11:33:09 pm | next stop M17 | next stop Marcy Av |
| 11:34:09 pm | next stop M17 | next stop Marcy Av |
Showing 7 of 7 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-m-bunch-84759.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.