Brandon Hall | |||||||||||
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![]() Brandon Hall station in May 2019 | |||||||||||
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Location | 1481 Beacon Street Brookline, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′23″N 71°07′46″W / 42.339683°N 71.129327°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2011 | 356 (weekday average boardings)[1] | ||||||||||
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Brandon Hall station is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line C branch in Brookline, Massachusetts. The station's name is an anachronism, as it was named for Brandon Hall, a large hotel built in 1904 just south of the station which burned down on April 26, 1946, after housing 400 SPARS during World War II.[2][3][4]
Brandon Hall station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It is not accessible, although a wheelchair lift allows accessible passage between the two elevations of the two halves of Beacon Street at the station. With 356 daily passengers by a 2011 count, Brandon Hall was the second-least-used stop on the C branch after Hawes Street.[1]
Track work in 2018–19, which included replacement of platform edges at several stops, triggered requirements for accessibility modifications at those stops.[5] Design work for Brandon Hall and seven other C Branch stations was 15% complete by December 2022.[6] Designs shown in February 2024 called for Fairbanks Street and Brandon Hall stations to be consolidated into a single station between their present locations. Accessible ramps to the north side of Beacon Street would be built at Lancaster Terrace and Mason Path.[7] In May 2024, the Federal Transit Administration awarded the MBTA $67 million to construct accessible platforms at 14 B and C branch stops including the combined station.[8] As of June 2024[update], construction is expected to be complete in fall 2026.[9]