Rockaway Park Shuttle

Rockaway Park Shuttle
Rockaway Park Shuttle train of R179s terminated at Broad Channel
Northern end	Broad Channel
Southern end	Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street
Stations	5
Rolling stock	R46 R179[1][2] (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	Pitkin Yard
Started service	June 28, 1956; 67 years ago (1956-06-28)
Route map Legend  A  Inwood–207th Street Dyckman Street 190th Street 181st Street 175th Street switches to local tracks during late nights  C  168th Street 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue 155th Street ​ Uptown & the Bronx via Concourse Line 145th Street 135th Street 125th Street 116th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street–Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle ​ Downtown & Brooklyn via 53rd Street East Side & Queens via 53rd Street 50th Street ( southbound) 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal 34th Street–Penn Station 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Spring Street Canal Street switches to local tracks during late nights World Trade Center | Chambers Street  E  Fulton Street Manhattan Brooklyn High Street ​ Manhattan & Queens via 6th Avenue Jay Street–MetroTech ​ Church Avenue & Coney Island via Culver New York Transit Museum (formerly Court Street) Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets Queens via Crosstown switches to local tracks during late nights Lafayette Avenue Clinton–Washington Avenues Franklin Avenue Nostrand Avenue Kingston–Throop Avenues Utica Avenue Ralph Avenue Rockaway Avenue Broadway Junction Liberty Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Shepherd Avenue Euclid Avenue  C  switches to local tracks during late nights Grant Avenue Brooklyn Queens 80th Street 88th Street Rockaway Boulevard 104th Street 111th Street Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard  A  Aqueduct Racetrack (northbound only) Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue Howard Beach–JFK Airport  S  Broad Channel Beach 67th Street Beach 60th Street Beach 44th Street Beach 36th Street Beach 25th Street Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue  A  Beach 90th Street Beach 98th Street Beach 105th Street Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street  S  ( A  rush hours) Legend Lines used by the and Other services sharing tracks with the and Unused lines, connections, or service patterns  A  Termini of services Cross-platform interchange Platforms on different levels This diagram: view talk edit

The Rockaway Park Shuttle^[3] is a New York City Subway shuttle train that operates in Queens. It connects with the A train at Broad Channel station and is the latest iteration of the Rockaway Shuttle services that have been running on the Rockaway peninsula since 1956. This shuttle train provides service to the western part of the peninsula, with a terminus at Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street. The fully above-ground route operates on trackage that was originally part of the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch until the mid-1950s. During summer weekends, to eliminate an additional transfer and thus ease beach access, the Rockaway Park Shuttle is typically extended four stations north to Rockaway Boulevard, the southernmost station shared by Rockaway-bound and Lefferts Boulevard-bound A trains.

Like the other two shuttles, 42nd Street in Manhattan and Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn, it is marked with the letter "S" and its route bullet is colored dark gray on route signs, station signs, rolling stock, and the official subway map. The internal designator for this service is H, though the MTA does not show this on any maps, train rollsigns, or schedules; the designation S^R is also sometimes used on public documents.^[4]

Prior to 1993, the Rockaway Park Shuttle used multiple different designations, including the E, CC, and H, which had an emblem colored blue. The H formerly ran north to Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn via the IND Fulton Street Line, as well as to Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue to the east. In 2012–13, after Hurricane Sandy destroyed the IND Rockaway Line's connection to the rest of the system, the blue H shuttle provided service from Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue to Beach 90th Street.