Brandon Hall (MBTA station)

BRANDON HALL

An inbound train at Brandon Hall station in April 2016
Location 1477-1485 Beacon Street
Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°20′23″N 71°07′46″W / 42.339683°N 71.129327°W / 42.339683; -71.129327Coordinates: 42°20′23″N 71°07′46″W / 42.339683°N 71.129327°W / 42.339683; -71.129327
Owned by MBTA
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Traffic
Passengers 356 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
Green Line

Brandon Hall is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "C" Branch in Brookline, Massachusetts. The station is named for Brandon Hall, a large hotel built in 1904 just south of the station.[2] After housing 400 SPARS during World War II, it burned on April 26, 1947, but the station retained its name.[3]

Brandon Hall station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It is not handicapped accessible, although a wheelchair lift allows handicapped people to move 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]

Station layout

G
Street/
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound "C" Branch toward Cleveland Circle (Fairbanks)
Inbound "C" Branch toward North Station (Summit Avenue)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References

  1. 1 2 "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 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. "$400,000 BROOKLINE FIRE: Wartime Home of 400 Spars Is Destroyed in Blaze". New York Times. 27 April 1946 via Proquest Historical Newspapers. (subscription required (help)).
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