Fairbanks Street station is a light rail stop on the Green Line C branch of the MBTA subway system, located in the median of Beacon Street at Fairbanks Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Fairbanks station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It is not accessible, although a wheelchair lift allows accessible transfer between the two elevations of the two halves of Beacon Street at the station. The MBTA plans to close Fairbanks Street in 2026 as part of renovations to nearby Brandon Hall station.
Track work in 2018âÂÂ19, which included replacement of platform edges at several stops, triggered requirements for accessibility modifications at those stops. Design work for Fairbanks Street and seven other C Branch stations was 15% complete by December 2022. Designs shown in February 2024 called for Fairbanks Street and Brandon Hall stations to be consolidated into a single station between their present locations. Accessible ramps to the north side of Beacon Street would be built at Lancaster Terrace and Mason Path. In May 2024, the Federal Transit Administration awarded the MBTA $67 million to construct accessible platforms at 14 B and C branch stops including the combined station.
The MBTA awarded a $41.9 million design-build contract in April 2025. Designs shown in February 2026 called for the platforms for the combined station to be at the existing Brandon Hall site. , work at Fairbanks Street and Brandon Hall is expected to take place from May to December 2026.