[5] It serves the Allston-Brighton area as well as the Boston Landing development including Warrior Ice Arena.

[1][5] It is an infill station, since commuter rail trains passed frequently on existing tracks through the site.

[11] Serving both tourists headed to the gardens and livestock dealers bound for the nearby cattle market, it quickly became one of the railroad's busiest stations.

[12] By 1850, the station reported generated $5,000 in revenues some weeks, with round-trip tickets to Boston costing just 12.5 cents.

The Post Office acknowledged the name change, as did the B&A; the station was officially renamed Allston on June 1, 1868.

In 1871, residents attempted to privately finance a branch line that would split from the mainline at Allston and run to Brighton Center.

[14]: 16  From there, the branch would have either ran north to rejoin the mainline, or continued west through Oak Square and reached the main at Newton.

[16][14]: 16 After years of deferred investment after the Panic of 1873, the B&A began a substantial improvement program to its suburban stations around 1879.

[21] Allston and Brighton stations were closed in April 1959 (along with University, Faneuil, and Newton) when much of the main line was reduced from 4 to 2 tracks during the building of the Massachusetts Turnpike.

[14] Regina Pizzeria closed in July 2020; that August, Allston music venue Great Scott announced that they were in negotiations to lease the station to replace their former location.

The station was estimated to serve 2,000 daily riders by 2030, cost $10 million, and take ten years to actually reach completion when the recommendations were made in 2009.

[5] In March 2012, New Balance submitted initial plans for a mixed-use development in Brighton, which included the possibility of a commuter rail station.

[32] One June 7, 2012, Allston-Brighton officials announced that New Balance and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation had signed a letter of intent to build a station at Everett Street, to be named New Brighton Landing.

[5] The associated New Brighton Landing development was approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority on September 13, 2012, with construction to begin later that year.

[37] State legislators representing communities along the Worcester Line have expressed concern that Boston Landing and the planned West Station would slow down trips for suburban commuters.

[34] In April 2017, the MBTA announced that the station would be in Zone 1, which would have given suburban commuters inexpensive interzone fares but increased the cost of reaching downtown from Boston Landing.