Brookline Hills station
Brookline Hills station is a light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line D branch in the Brookline Hills neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts. The station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It was closed from April 2021 to January 2022 as part of adjacent construction on a Brookline High School building, which included renovations to make the station accessible. History. 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. 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. The 1892 depot is no longer extant. Accessibility. In the early 2000s, the MBTA modified key surface stops with raised platforms for accessibility. Brookline Hills was not among those initially outfitted with portable lifts, nor was it  retrofitted with raised platforms. However, portable lifts were installed by 2003. Around 2006, the MBTA added wooden mini-high platforms on both platforms, allowing level boarding on older Type 7 LRVs. These platforms were installed at eight Green Line stations in 2006–07 as part of the settlement of "Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al. v. MBTA". The station was renovated with fully accessible platforms as part of an expansion of Brookline High School, which included a new school building partially over the eastern end of the platforms. Construction began in late 2019; the station closed on April 12, 2021 for the  final phase. The renovated station opened on January 8, 2022.