Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two N trains 2 min apart

At 36 St, toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, between 9:06 pm and 9:08 pm. The schedule called for a train every 15 min.

Line
N train
Station
36 St (station R36)
Direction
toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
Train before
train 1N 2035 STL/DIT, passed 9:06:39 pm
Train after
train EN 2041 STL/DIT, passed 9:08:39 pm
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
15 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 36 St toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1N 2035 STEN 2041 ST8:30 pm8:45 pm9:00 pm9:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm2 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 36 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1N 2035 STL/DIT (before)Train EN 2041 STL/DIT (after)
9:05:09 pmnext stop 36 Stnext stop 36 St
9:06:09 pmnext stop 36 Stnext stop 36 St
9:07:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 36 St
9:08:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 36 St
9:09:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:10:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr

Showing 6 of 6 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-n-bunch-76119.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.