Gillespie Field station
# Gillespie Field station

Gillespie Field station is a Green Line station of the San Diego Trolley in the San Diego suburb of Santee, California. It is located across Marshall Avenue from Gillespie Field, a county airport which also contains an annex of the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

It was ranked worst rail station in California in a 2015 UC Berkeley School of Law study, due to its sparse, unwalkable location and lack of ridership. Study co-author Elkind was quoted in the press, “I almost wondered if there was really a station out there or if we got the GPS wrong. It looked like cow pastures.”

## History

Gillespie opened as part of the fourth and final segment of the East Line (now Orange Line) on July 26, 1995, which extended the physical line from El Cajon Transit Center to Santee Town Center. With the opening of the new Green Line in July 2005, this service was replaced, and Orange Line trolleys began to terminate at this station. (This was due to the path between Gillespie Field and Santee Town Center being single tracked, and having two lines running on that route would cause operational issues.)

Orange Line service was further truncated to El Cajon Transit Center on September 2, 2012 as part of a system redesign due to low ridership between the two stations, so only the Green Line now serves this station.

## Station layout

There are two tracks, each served by a side platform. Just past the station, Santee Town Center-bound service merges onto a single track.

Side platform, doors will open on the right :

| Westbound | ← Green Line toward 12th & Imperial Transit Center (Arnele Avenue) |
| - | - |
| Eastbound | → Green Line toward Santee Town Center (Santee Town Center) → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right ||
