Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

39 min with no Q train

At 7 Av, toward Prospect Park, between 9:40 pm and 10:19 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
Q train
Station
7 Av (station D25)
Direction
toward Prospect Park
Train before
train 1Q 2102 962/PPK, passed 9:40:39 pm
Train after
train 1Q 2111 962/PPK, passed 10:19:39 pm
Gap
39 min (2340 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 7 Av toward Prospect Park. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1Q 2102 961Q 2111 969:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm39 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 7 Av when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1Q 2102 962/PPK (before)Train 1Q 2111 962/PPK (after)
9:39:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop DeKalb Av
9:42:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop DeKalb Av
9:45:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:48:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
9:51:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
9:54:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
9:57:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:00:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:03:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:06:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:09:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:12:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop 7 Av
10:15:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 7 Av
10:18:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 7 Av
10:21:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Prospect Park

Showing 15 of 43 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-q-gap-80379.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.