Brandon Hall station

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
Brandon Hall station in May 2019
General information
Location1481 Beacon Street
Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42.339683°N 71.129327°W / 42.339683; -71.129327
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Passengers
2011356 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
Fairbanks Street
toward Cleveland Circle
 Green Line Summit Avenue
toward Government Center
Location

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] As of June 2023, construction is expected to take place during 2024.[7]

References
  1. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. Denehy, John William (1906). A history of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the first settlement of Muddy River until the present time. The Brookline Press Company. p. 174 – via Internet Archive.
  3. "Flames Raze Brandon Hall". Boston Globe. April 26, 1946. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. "State Marshal Probes Fire at Brandon Hall". Boston Globe. April 27, 1946. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  5. Brelsford, Laura (May 24, 2021). "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—May 2021" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. pp. 4–5.
  6. "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—December 2022" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. December 6, 2022. pp. 4–5.
  7. "System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—June 2023" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility. June 5, 2023. p. 4.

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