Achères-Grand-Cormier: station history
Served by: RER A.
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A station in the Yvelines on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Le Havre line, at the centre of a vast railway complex (marshalling yard, depot, locomotive maintenance) at the origin of the Achères to Pontoise line. A first halt, about a hundred metres north of the present one, had been operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Rouen. The present building, opened in 1931, replaced the original station after the level crossings of the RN 184 were removed and a double bridge built. It has two central platforms: platform A (212/226 m) and platform B (247 m).
Anecdote
The station has carried several names: Étoile de Conflans originally, Achères-Embranchement in 1877 when the marshalling yard was extended and the Achères to Pontoise line opened, Achères in the 1920s, then Achères-Grand-Cormier in 1979, when Achères-Ville opened. Isolated in the forêt de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it is served at night by Noctilien N152. It is the only station on RER line A without ticket-control lines; during works on RER A, trains of lines L or J serve it.
Around Achères-Grand-Cormier
- Forêt domaniale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 50 m away — The station stands isolated in the forest: station-to-station hikes lead to Saint-Germain, Poissy or Conflans.
- Étang du Corra, 2400 m away — A pond in the Saint-Germain forest, a stop on a hike between Achères's two stations.