page_title: Revere Beach station
section_title: Renovations
hierarchical_section_title: Revere Beach station / History / Renovations
caption_attribution_description: Revere Beach MBTA station.
context_page_description: Revere Beach is a rapid transit station in Revere, Massachusetts. Located between Beach Street and Shirley Avenue, it serves the MBTA Blue Line. It serves Revere Beach, a popular summer destination with a substantial year-round resident population. It opened in January 1954 on the site of a former Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad station, as part of an extension to Wonderland. Revere Beach station was closed and rebuilt from 1994 to 1995.
  Like all Blue Line stations from Airport east, Revere Beach has two tracks and two side platforms. Uniquely among Blue Line stations, it is located below grade in a trench, with a surface-level fare lobby. Entrances to the station are from Beach Street and Shirley Avenue.
context_section_description: Revere Beach station was closed for approximately one year starting on June 25, 1994 as the station was rebuilt along with Suffolk Downs, Beachmont, and Wonderland  stations as part of the Blue Line Modernization Program.  Blue Line service temporarily ended at Orient Heights and buses served the closed stations during the project Revere Beach station was largely rebuilt at a cost of $9.8 million; it reopened along with the other stations on June 24, 1995.
  The station was closed while additional platform repair work was performed from August 2 through 29, 2008.
caption: Platforms at Revere Beach before 2008 repair work
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