Mount Vernon Square/7th Street–Convention Center (Washington Metro)

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Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center

Station statistics

Address

700 M Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20001

Lines

Green Line

Yellow Line

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

6 racks

Other information

Opened

May 11, 1991

Accessible

Code

E01

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Formerly

Mt Vernon Square-UDC (1991-2001)

Services

Preceding station		Metrorail		Following station
Gallery Pl-Chinatown toward Branch Avenue		Green Line		Shaw-Howard Univ toward Greenbelt
Gallery Pl-Chinatown toward Huntington		Yellow Line		Shaw-Howard Univ toward Fort Totten

Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center (formerly Mt Vernon Square-UDC) is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Green and Yellow Lines. Yellow Line trains terminate service here, and reverse direction using a pocket track just north of the station. Since December 31, 2006, Metro has been running off-peak and weekend Yellow Line trains north to Fort Totten as part of an experiment to determine ridership.

The station is located in Northwest at 7th and M Streets. It takes its name from the nearby Mount Vernon Square, its location along 7th Street, NW, and the fact that the station's entrance lies adjacent to the Washington Convention Center. It is also near some facilities of the University of the District of Columbia, giving it the former UDC portion of its name. The station's name was originally intended to be "Federal City College". Service began on May 11, 1991. The station was renovated in 2003 to coincide with the opening of the Washington Convention Center. The renovation included additional faregates and a new street entrance.

On January 7, 2007, the fifth car of a six-car train derailed in the tunnel south of the station, sending twenty people to the hospital for minor injuries and significantly damaging a rail car.^[1]^[2]