Orient Heights is a station on the MBTA Blue Line in East Boston, MA that uses overhead lines instead of third rail. Orient Heights is one of the few Blue Line stations in East Boston that has not been rebuilt. Its two platforms sit on either side of two central tracks and are connected by a mezzanine walkway to facilitate changing directions without paying an extra fare.
Interestingly, Orient Heights is the only station in the MBTA that has a map of the old Orange Line that terminated at Everett Station to the North and went through the old Dover and Northhampton station in the south. The Station was Opened on January 5th.1952 and is Handicapped Accessible.
Orient Heights Yard, the main Blue Line yard, is (as the name suggests) close by.
October 8, 2018