Brookline Hills (MBTA station)

BROOKLINE HILLS
An outbound train at Brookline Hills station in April 2016
Location	Tappan Street at Cypress Street Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′53″N 71°7′36″W / 42.33139°N 71.12667°WCoordinates: 42°19′53″N 71°7′36″W / 42.33139°N 71.12667°W
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Green Line– "D" Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Bicycle facilities	6 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	July 4, 1959[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	1,225 (daily average)[2]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Beaconsfield toward Riverside Green Line "D" Branch Brookline Village toward Government Center

Brookline Hills is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch, located west of Cypress Street in the Brookline Hills section of Brookline, Massachusetts. The station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It does not have raised platforms to provide handicapped accessibility to low-floor trams, but it does have wooden "mini-high" ramps to provide level boarding on older high-floor trams.

Station layout

G Street/ Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Outbound	← "D" Branch toward Riverside (Beaconsfield)
	Inbound	→ "D" Branch toward Government Center (Brookline Village) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

History

Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge depot picture on an early color postcard

The original Brookline Hills station opened in 1852 on the Highland Branch, which at the time was a conventional commuter rail line. After 1886, loop service was run via what is now the Framingham/Worcester Line and later the Needham Line. In March 1892, a new station designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was opened.^[3][4]

The final trains on the line ran on May 31, 1958. The line was converted to light rail by the M.T.A. and Brookline Hills reopened on July 4, 1959, along with the rest of the "D" Branch.^[1] The 1892 depot is no longer extant.

Bus connections

One MBTA Bus route serves the station:

• 60 Chestnut Hill - Kenmore Station via Brookline Village & Cypress Street

References

1. Belcher, Jonathan (23 April 2012). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
3. Morgan, Keith N., Cushing, Elizabeth Hope, and Reed, Roger (2009). "Appendix VI: The Brookline projects of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge" (PDF). Community by Design: The Role of the Frederick Law Olmsted Office in the Suburbanization of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1880 to 1936. Boston University. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
4. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (June 1988). "Architecture for the Boston & Albany Railroad: 1881-1894". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 (2): 130. doi:10.2307/990324 – via JSTOR. (subscription required (help)).

External links

• MBTA - Brookline Hills
• Station from Google Maps Street View