The Franklin Avenue Shuttle is a New York City Subway shuttle service operating in Brooklyn. The shuttle service uses the BMT Franklin Avenue Line exclusively. The north terminus is Franklin Avenue, with a transfer available to the IND Fulton Street Line. The south terminus is Prospect Park, with a transfer available to the BMT Brighton Line. NYCT Rapid Transit Operations refer to it internally as the S or FS. Like the other two shuttles, the 42nd Street Shuttle in Manhattan and the Rockaway Park Shuttle in Queens, its route bullet is colored on route signs, station signs, rolling stock, and the official subway map. The S started running along its current route in 1963, and it has had four stations since 1995. Consumers Park was closed in 1928 and replaced by the current Botanic Garden station five blocks to the north. There is a visible clearing at the former station location. Dean Street was closed in 1995 due to low paid fare entrance and fare beating. The shuttle runs two 2-car train sets of R68 cars under One Person Train Operation with the motorman also being the conductor. The motorman will go to the opposite end to make another run at each terminal. The northbound and southbound trains usually pass each other at Botanic Garden, the only station on the line to use both tracks. This effectively leaves a passing loop for the northbound train to leave Botanic Garden when the southbound train arrives. History Early history The current service is co-extensive with the BMT Franklin Avenue Line. It parallels Franklin Avenue, hence the shuttle's name (and the name of the line). It was originally a part of the mainline of what is now the BMT Brighton Line and opened as part of that steam railroad line in 1878. The Franklin Avenue Line was established as a discrete route on August 1, 1920, when the Brighton Beach mainline was shifted to the new tunnel connecting Prospect Park station with the Fourth Avenue Subway at DeKalb Avenue station. Subway trains from the BRT Broadway Line in Manhattan and elevated trains from Franklin Avenue began sharing operations to Coney Island. The subway operations became the full-time service, and the Franklin Avenue trains provided a variety of scheduled services, based on day of the week, time of day, and even seasonal variations, reverting to shuttle service at other times. After the city gained