Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 48, 2013

The A Eighth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route bullet is colored on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map since it runs on the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan. The A service operates at all times. The usual service pattern is between 207th Street in Inwood, Manhattan and Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens or Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard in Richmond Hill, Queens via Central Park West / Eighth Avenue Express in Manhattan, Fulton Street Express in Brooklyn and Liberty Avenue / Rockaway Local in Queens. The A provides the longest one-seat ride in the system, at over 31 miles from Inwood to Far Rockaway. Five rush hour trips (designated  in the schedule) run from Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park, Queens to Manhattan during the peak weekday morning commute hours and five trips run to Rockaway Park from Manhattan during the peak weekday late-afternoon commute hours. At all times, a shuttle train (S – Rockaway Park Shuttle) operates between Rockaway Park and Broad Channel. Take the A Train, a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn, referred to the A service which at that time from eastern Brooklyn up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the express tracks in Manhattan.