Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

34 min with no Q train

At Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, toward Prospect Park, between 9:46 pm and 10:20 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
Q train
Station
Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr (station D24)
Direction
toward Prospect Park
Train before
train 1Q 2111 962/PPK, passed 9:46:39 pm
Train after
train 1Q 2123 962/PPK, passed 10:20:39 pm
Gap
34 min (2040 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

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

ScheduledSeen1Q 2111 961Q 2123 969:15 pm9:30 pm9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm34 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1Q 2111 962/PPK (before)Train 1Q 2123 962/PPK (after)
9:45:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Canal St
9:47:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop DeKalb Av
9:49:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop DeKalb Av
9:51:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop DeKalb Av
9:53:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop DeKalb Av
9:55:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:57:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
9:59:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:01:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:03:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:05:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:07:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:09:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:11:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:13:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:15:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr

Showing 16 of 38 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-q-gap-80439.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.