Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

29 min with no R train

At 4 Av-9 St, toward Bay Ridge-95 St, between 10:12 pm and 10:41 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
R train
Station
4 Av-9 St (station R33)
Direction
toward Bay Ridge-95 St
Train before
train 1R 2106 CTL/95S, passed 10:12:39 pm
Train after
train 1R 2130 CTL/95S, passed 10:41:39 pm
Gap
29 min (1740 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at 4 Av-9 St toward Bay Ridge-95 St. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1R 2106 CT1R 2130 CT9:45 pm10:00 pm10:15 pm10:30 pm10:45 pm11:00 pm11:15 pm29 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 4 Av-9 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1R 2106 CTL/95S (before)Train 1R 2130 CTL/95S (after)
10:11:09 pmnext stop Union Stnext stop Prince St
10:13:09 pmnext stop Prospect Avnext stop Prince St
10:15:09 pmnext stop 25 Stnext stop Prince St
10:17:09 pmnext stop 36 Stnext stop City Hall
10:19:09 pmnext stop 45 Stnext stop City Hall
10:21:09 pmnext stop 53 Stnext stop Rector St
10:23:09 pmnext stop 59 Stnext stop Whitehall St-South Ferry
10:25:09 pmnext stop Bay Ridge Avnext stop Court St
10:27:09 pmnext stop 86 Stnext stop Court St
10:29:09 pmnext stop Bay Ridge-95 Stnext stop Court St
10:31:09 pmnext stop Bay Ridge-95 Stnext stop Jay St-MetroTech
10:33:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Jay St-MetroTech
10:35:09 pmtrip finishednext stop DeKalb Av
10:37:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
10:39:09 pmtrip finishednext stop Union St
10:41:09 pmtrip finishednext stop 4 Av-9 St

Showing 16 of 33 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-r-gap-81699.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.