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S (New York City Subway Service) | div class="thumbcaption">Current bullet | | | div class="thumbcaption">R27 end rollsign for shuttles | 1968-1979 bullet for all shuttles (in a circle) | Former uses Other lines have in the past been designated S; the label has also been used for temporary shuttles due to construction. Before 1986, all shuttles had the label SS, and S was reserved for 'special' services, including the services to the 1939 New York World's Fair and to Aqueduct Racetrack. The SS label was first applied in 1967, when all services were labeled due to the completion of the Chrystie Street Connection. See HH for the old Court Street Shuttle and the later Rockaway Shuttle. See for the old Third Avenue Shuttle in the Bronx (shown as SHUTTLE on rollsigns).http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nyc.transit/browse_thread/thread/a7065eeb80591602/b80df6369f787ab3?q=%22lenox+shuttle&rnum=3#b80df6369f787ab3 Former uses of the S or SS designation are as follows: Lenox Terminal Shuttle (1905?-ca. 1970) | div class="thumbcaption">1967-1968 Bowling Green Shuttle bullet (in a circle) | 1967-1968 Lenox Shuttle bullet (in a circle) | East 180th Street-Dyre Avenue Shuttle | div class="thumbcaption">1967-1968 Dyre Avenue Shuttle bullet (in a circle) | 1967-1968 Culver Shuttle bullet (in a circle) | - Main article: IRT Dyre Avenue Line
The East 180th Street-Dyre Avenue Shuttle (also Dyre Avenue Shuttle) was established as a new subway service and full-time shuttle in 1941 between the former East 180th Street station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway and Dyre Avenue, which was the last station of the NYW&B within New York City. Passengers had to make a walking transfer between the Dyre Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line at East 180th Street as the two lines did not share a common station and there was no track connection between the lines. In 1957 a flyover connection opened between the East 180th Street station of the White Plains Road Line and the Dyre Avenue Line, enabling through service by trains of the from Manhattan to Dyre Avenue. At the same time, the former NYW&B station was closed and off-hours Dyre Avenue Shuttles rerouted to the White Plains Road Line station. These shuttles were initially labeled like the full-time service but were later signed , a number now used for IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line skip-stop service. The off-hours Dyre Avenue shuttle still operates, but trains on the line are signed , the same as the through service that now serves the line. Culver Shuttle (1954-1975) - Main article: BMT Culver Line
Myrtle Avenue Shuttle (1969-ca. 1972) This was only around for a few years from 1969, picking up the slack from , before it was merged into the . Nassau Street Shuttle This ran only during Williamsburg Bridge rehabilitation, providing Manhattan service for the , and . References - NYCsubway.org - Historical Maps
- NYCsubway.org - FAQ: The Letter, Number and Color Codes of the New York Subways
- Line By Line History
- Subway Bullets
- One Dies in Wreck of Subway Train, New York Times December 9, 1918 page 13
- Coming Transit Reductions: What They Mean for You, New York Times August 20, 1995 page CY10
- A Subway Station is Shuttered, the First in 33 Years, New York Times September 11, 1995 article is about Dean Street on the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the headline refers to the 1962 closing of Worth Street; several old-style elevated railways were closed since then, as well as the Culver Shuttle which hosted both elevated and subway service at one time
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