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Eastern Market Station

WMATA Metro Logo.svg Eastern Market Blue Line Orange Line Silver Line
Eastern Market station.jpg
Ben Schumin photo of platform and mezzanine in May 2010
Location 701 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20003
Owned by WMATA
Line(s)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections Bus transport Metrobus: 30N, 30S, 32, 34, 36, 39, 90, 92
Bus transport DC Circulator
Construction
Structure type Underground
Bicycle facilities 20 lockers
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code D06
History
Opened July 1, 1977; 39 years ago (July 1, 1977)
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 5,297 daily  Decrease 14.48%
Services
Preceding station   WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro   Following station
Blue Line
toward Vienna
Orange Line
Silver Line

Eastern Market is an island platformed Washington Metro station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The station currently provides service for the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines. 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.

Originally, the station was to be named Marine Barracks, after the Washington Marine Barracks located a few blocks south of the station on 8th Street. However, after lobbying from the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, the name was changed to Eastern Market. The station opened on July 1, 1977. Its opening coincided with the completion of 11.8 miles (19.0 km) of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of an entire section of line, which included 16 stations in total, between Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Station to Stadium–Armory Station. Orange Line service to the station began upon the line's opening on November 20, 1978. Silver Line service at Eastern Market began on July 26, 2014.


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