Brookline Hills

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.HistoryThe 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.Bus connectionsOne MBTA Bus route serves the station: 60 Chestnut Hill - Kenmore Station via Brookline Village & Cypress Street