Gilman Square station

Gilman Square station is an under-construction light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is being built as part of the Medford Branch of the Green Line Extension. Gilman Square will consist of one island platform. It is projected to open in December 2021.
History.
Railroad station.
The Boston and Lowell Railroad opened between its namesake cities in 1835; local stops were added after several years. Winter Hill station was located at Gilman Square in Somerville, one of several stations in the city. The station building was a long wooden structure north of the tracks. In 1870, the Lexington Branch was routed over the B&L east of Somerville Junction, increasing service to Winter Hill and several other stations.
In 1888, a new stone station was built on the south side of the tracks; the wooden station was split into two sections which were reused as houses still standing near Magoun Square. The new station was made of red marble ashlar with rough marble trim; the waiting room featured a marble fireplace.
The inner suburban stations lost much of their ridership to streetcars, especially after the Lechmere Viaduct sped travel times to downtown beginning in 1911. The ticket office at Winter Hill was closed in 1926. On April 25, 1927, the Lexington Branch was reconnected to the Fitchburg Line; the 1870-built line west of Somerville Junction became the Fitchburg Cutoff used only by freight trains. Three stations on the cutoff plus Prospect Hill and East Cambridge stations east of Winter Hill were closed entirely; service to Winter Hill ended then or soon after. The railroad unsuccessfully attempted to sell the station for reuse. The abandoned station building was demolished in July and August 1934, as it had become a target for vandalism. The stone base of the former station was used to house electric equipment until Green Line Extension construction began in 2018.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the newly formed MBTA reopened several inner-suburb commuter rail stations in response to community desire for service that was faster if less frequent than buses. In 1976, Winter Hill station was considered for reactivation, but ridership was expected to be negligible due to the nearby , , , and buses.
A Gilman Square commuter rail station to supplement the then-planned Green Line station was listed as a possibility in 2012 as an interim air quality mitigation measure in response to delays in building the Green Line Extension. However, such a station would have been costly to build and could not have been completed by the 2015 deadline, and was thus not supported by MassDOT.
Green Line station.
In November 2012, the MBTA indicated that the Gilman Square station was expected to be completed by June 2019, as part of the Phase 3 of the Green Line Extension project. As of 2014, the MBTA expected the Gilman Square station to be completed in 2020, but in December 2016, it announced the station's opening had been delayed until 2021.
By August 2020, the platform foundation and south headhouse were under construction. , the station is expected to open in December 2021. Original plans called for the D Branch to be extended to Medford/Tufts. However, in April 2021, the MBTA indicated that the Medford Branch would instead be served by the E Branch.