Eastern Market (Washington Metro)

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Eastern Market

Station statistics

Address

701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast
Washington, D.C. 20003

Lines

Blue Line

Orange Line

Silver Line (planned)

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

20 lockers

Other information

Opened

July 1, 1977

Accessible

Code

D06

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Traffic

Passengers (2001)

1.692 million ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station	Metrorail	Following station
Capitol South toward Franconia–Springfield	Blue Line	Potomac Avenue toward Largo Town Center
Capitol South toward Vienna/Fairfax–GMU	Orange Line	Potomac Avenue toward New Carrollton
Capitol South toward Route 772	Silver Line (planned)	Potomac Avenue toward Stadium–Armory

Station entrance pylon

Eastern Market is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. 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, D.C. 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.