Eastern Market (Washington Metro)

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Eastern Market

Station statistics

Address

701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast
Washington, DC 20003

Lines

Blue Line, Orange Line

Other service

Silver Line (planned)

Platforms

Center platform

Tracks

two

Bicycle facilities

20 lockers

Other information

Opened

July 1, 1977

Accessible

Code

D06

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Services

Previous station	Washington Metro	Next station
Capitol South toward Franconia-Springfield	Blue	Potomac Avenue toward Largo Town Center
Capitol South toward Vienna/Fairfax-GMU	Orange	Potomac Avenue toward New Carrollton
Capitol South toward Route 772	Silver	Potomac Avenue toward Stadium-Armory

Eastern Market is a Washington Metro station in Washington, DC on the Blue and Orange Lines. It will also be on the planned Silver Line, which is planned to start operations in 2011.

The station is located in Southeast Washington at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street. It is named after the nearby Eastern Market, a historic Washington, DC public marketplace and neighborhood within Capitol Hill. Service began on July 1, 1977.

Originally, Eastern Market was to be named Marine Barracks, after the Washington Marine Barracks located a few blocks south of the station, on 8th Street.