Capitol Heights is an
island platformed Washington Metro station in
Capitol Heights,
Maryland,
United States. The station was opened on November 22, 1980, and is operated by the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the
Blue and
Silver Lines, the station is located at 133 Central Avenue in a residential area at
East Capitol Street and
Southern Avenue. In December 2012, Capitol Heights was one of five stations added to the route of the
Silver Line, which was originally supposed to end at the
Stadium-Armory station, but was extended into
Prince George's County, Maryland to the
Largo Town Center station (the eastern terminus of the Blue Line) due to safety concerns about a
pocket track just past Stadium-Armory. Silver Line service at Capitol Heights began on July 26, 2014.