Ball Square (MBTA station)

BALL SQUARE
Ball Square station site in July 2015
Location	Broadway at Boston Avenue Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°23′59.94″N 71°6′39.97″W / 42.3999833°N 71.1111028°W / 42.3999833; -71.1111028Coordinates: 42°23′59.94″N 71°6′39.97″W / 42.3999833°N 71.1111028°W / 42.3999833; -71.1111028
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Green Line– "D" Branch
Platforms	1 island platform (Green Line)
Tracks	2 (Green Line) 2 (Lowell Line)
Construction
Platform levels	2
History
Opened	2021 (planned)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Lowell Street toward Riverside Green Line "D" Branch College Avenue Terminus

Ball Square is a planned station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch in the Ball Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts. Ball Square will consist of one island platform, which will serve the "D" Branch's two tracks.

The Boston and Lowell Railroad opened through Somerville and Medford in 1835, although local passenger stops were not added until several years later. A station was built at Cambridge Road (Broadway) near Ball Square; by 1875, the station was named Willow Bridge and located on the west side of the tracks just north of Broadway. By the late 1890s, the station was named North Somerville.

Horsecars, and later streetcars consolidated under the Boston Elevated Railway, cut sharply into local railroad traffic. All stops inbound from North Somerville were closed in 1927 when the Fitchburg Cutoff became freight-only, or shortly thereafter. On April 18, 1958, the Public Utilities Commission approved a vast set of cuts to Boston and Maine Railroad commuter service, including the closure of North Somerville, Tufts College, and Medford Hillside stations. The three stations were closed on May 18, 1958, amid the first of a series of cuts.