Everything about the Rockaway Park Shuttle totally explained
The
Rockaway Park Shuttle is a service of the
New York City Subway operating in
Queens. It connects with the train at Broad Channel station. This shuttle train provides service to the southern part of the
Rockaway peninsula, with a terminus at Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street. It operates on trackage that was part of the
Long Island Rail Road until the mid-1950s.
The shuttle trains consist of four
R44s during the winter months, and eight-car trains during the summer.
History
The Rockaway Shuttle started operating on
June 28,
1956. During its early years, it provided essentially non-rush hour and weekend service between Euclid Avenue and either
Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue or
Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street. At first, the route didn't have an official assigned letter code on maps, although sometimes trains displayed either the or route on their
rollsign boxes.
Beginning on
February 1,
1962, the Rockaway Shuttle was officially lettered on maps and trains as
HH. From
November 26,
1967 to
September 10,
1972, it was colored red, with daytime non-rush hour and weekend service usually available between Rockaway Park and Euclid Avenue or
Broad Channel, plus some weekday mid-afternoon service provided between Far Rockaway and Euclid Avenue.
During the late night-early morning hours, service operating to and from
Euclid Avenue on the
IND Fulton Street Line in
Brooklyn was extended between roughly midnight and 6:00 a.m., which were the hours when the didn't run to and from
Far Rockaway. At those times, the
HH would operate from Euclid Avenue to Rockaway Park, then to Far Rockaway, and finally back to Euclid Avenue, thus earning this
night owl service the unofficial nickname as
Rockaway Round-Robin.
Between
September 11,
1972 and
August 29,
1976, the shuttle's identifier was known as the
E (colored aqua blue), although during rush hours this train was extended all the way to
Jamaica–179th Street on the
IND Queens Boulevard Line in
Queens. Afterward, the designation
CC (colored green) was used for the shuttle, although during rush hours this train was extended all the way to
Bedford Park Boulevard on the
IND Concourse Line in the
Bronx.
In the 1980s, the shuttle's identifier was changed to
H (colored blue) instead of reverting to
HH, as the New York City subway system had abolished two-letter designations by then. Prior to 1990, late night service went to
Lefferts Boulevard with no service to Far Rockaway. During this time again, the Rockaway Shuttle ran from Rockaway Park to Far Rockaway, to Euclid Avenue, and finally, back down to Rockaway Park.
In 1993, service was changed. All late night service traveled to Far Rockaway and service to Lefferts Boulevard was provided by a shuttle to Euclid Avenue. The Rockaway Park Shuttle now ran between Rockaway Park and Broad Channel at all times. Service is extended to Euclid Avenue on weekends during the summer. Also in 1993, special service began running from Rockaway Park to
Dyckman on the
IND Eighth Avenue Line in
Inwood, Manhattan, during the morning rush and from
59th Street–Columbus Circle to Rockaway Park during the evening rush.
Formerly, some maps had shown the current
S service in blue, but this had never been used on trains. As of May 2004, "The Map" (the official
MTA map) shows the Rockaway Park Shuttle in gray. In order to distinguish it from the other shuttles, NYCT Rapid Transit operations refers to it internally as the
H.
Service information
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