Rockaway Park Shuttle

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The Rockaway Park Shuttle is a New York City Subway shuttle train that operates in Queens. It 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 central part of the peninsula, running between Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street to the west and Broad Channel to the east, where it connects with the A train. 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. In the summertime on weekends during the day, to eliminate an additional transfer and thus ease beach access, the Rockaway Park Shuttle is typically extended four stations north of Broad Channel to Rockaway Boulevard, the easternmost 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...

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