In 1877, a large station with a clock tower was built on the west (inbound) side of the tracks.

[3][4][6] Passenger service on the Old Colony system declined after World War II, and the New Haven decided to abandon the line in the late 1950s.

Emergency subsidies kept the lines open during construction of the Southeast Expressway, but all passenger service to Wollaston and the rest of the former Old Colony system was ended on June 30, 1959.

[3] In 1966, the Program for Mass Transportation recommended the extension, and construction of the station began that year.

Because of the limited width of the elevated grade and right-of-way through densely populated Quincy, adding a second commuter rail track would be extremely difficult.

The single-tracked section of the line around Wollaston represents a major bottleneck on the commuter rail system serving the South Shore.

The Red Line's Braintree extension was built several decades before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, and not all of the stations were originally handicapped-accessible.