Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

46 min with no Q train

At Canal St, toward Prospect Park, between 10:32 pm and 11:18 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
Q train
Station
Canal St (station Q01)
Direction
toward Prospect Park
Train before
train 1Q 2211 962/PPK, passed 10:32:39 pm
Train after
train 1Q 2253 962/PPK, passed 11:18:39 pm
Gap
46 min (2760 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

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

ScheduledSeen1Q 2211 961Q 2253 9610:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm11:30 pm11:45 pm46 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1Q 2211 962/PPK (before)Train 1Q 2253 962/PPK (after)
10:31:09 pmnext stop Canal Stnot in service yet
10:34:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:37:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:40:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:43:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:46:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:49:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:52:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:55:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnot in service yet
10:58:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnext stop 86 St
11:01:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnext stop 72 St
11:04:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 57 St-7 Av
11:07:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Times Sq-42 St
11:10:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop 34 St-Herald Sq
11:13:09 pmnext stop 7 Avnext stop Canal St
11:16:09 pmnext stop Prospect Parknext stop Canal St

Showing 16 of 50 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-q-gap-83919.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.