Timetable Test

Bunched trains · New York · Sat Oct 10

Two R trains 2 min apart

At Jay St-MetroTech, toward Bay Ridge-95 St, between 10:31 pm and 10:33 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.

Line
R train
Station
Jay St-MetroTech (station R29)
Direction
toward Bay Ridge-95 St
Train before
train 1R 2118 CTL/95S, passed 10:31:39 pm
Train after
train 1R 2130 CTL/95S, passed 10:33:39 pm
Gap
2 min (120 s)
Scheduled gap
10 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Jay St-MetroTech toward Bay Ridge-95 St. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1R 2118 CT1R 2130 CT10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm2 min gap

What the MTA feed said

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

SnapshotTrain 1R 2118 CTL/95S (before)Train 1R 2130 CTL/95S (after)
10:30:09 pmnext stop Jay St-MetroTechnext stop Court St
10:31:09 pmnext stop Jay St-MetroTechnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
10:32:09 pmnext stop DeKalb Avnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
10:33:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
10:34:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop DeKalb Av
10:35:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop DeKalb Av

Showing 6 of 6 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-r-bunch-81219.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.