Gillespie Field station
Gillespie Field 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 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 to . 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 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.