page_title: Orient Heights station
section_title: Bus connections
hierarchical_section_title: Orient Heights station / Bus connections
caption_attribution_description: English: Drop-off/pick-up lane (left) and busway off Bennington Street at Orient Heights station
context_page_description: Orient Heights is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts. The station serves the MBTA Blue Line. It is located off Bennington Street in East Boston's Orient Heights neighborhood. Formerly a Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad station under various names from 1875 to 1940, it reopened in 1952. The 1952-built station was closed in March 2013 for a complete rebuilding to provide full accessibility and reopened on November 26, 2013.
  Orient Heights station is the primary rapid transit connection for the Orient Heights neighborhood of East Boston, as well as for Winthrop. It also serves as a bus transfer station, with three routes connecting Winthrop and Orient Heights. Orient Heights Yard, the main Blue Line yard, branches off the main line just north of the station. Because of the proximity, Blue Line employees report to work at Orient Heights station.
context_section_description: Three MBTA bus routes operate out of Orient Heights:
  120: Orient Heights station–Jeffries Point
  712: Point Shirley, Winthrop–Orient Heights station via Revere Street
  713: Point Shirley, Winthrop–Orient Heights station via Winthrop Center
  Route 120 uses the Bennington Street busway on the inbound side of the station. Routes 712 and 713, which are privately operated lines using MBTA-owned buses, use the Saratoga Street busway on the outbound side.
caption: Bennington Street busway, used by the #120 bus
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