Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

41 min with no M train

At Central Av, toward 96 St, between 1:34 am and 2:15 am. The schedule called for a train every 20 min.

Line
M train
Station
Central Av (station M10)
Direction
toward 96 St
Train before
train 1M 0124 MET/MYR, passed 1:34:39 am
Train after
train 1M 0204 MET/MYR, passed 2:15:39 am
Gap
41 min (2460 s)
Scheduled gap
20 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Central Av toward 96 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1M 0124 ME1M 0204 ME1:00 am1:15 am1:30 am1:45 am2:00 am2:15 am2:30 am2:45 am41 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1M 0124 MET/MYR (before)Train 1M 0204 MET/MYR (after)
1:33:09 amnext stop Knickerbocker Avnot in service yet
1:36:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:39:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:42:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:45:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:48:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:51:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:54:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
1:57:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
2:00:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
2:03:09 amtrip finishednot in service yet
2:06:09 amtrip finishednext stop Fresh Pond Rd
2:09:09 amtrip finishednext stop Forest Av
2:12:09 amtrip finishednext stop Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
2:15:09 amtrip finishednext stop Central Av

Showing 15 of 45 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-m-gap-94539.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.