Antony: station history
Served by: RER B.
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A station in the Hauts-de-Seine operated by the RATP and served by RER line B, at kilometre point 8.8 of the Sceaux line, at 52 metres above sea level, between La Croix-de-Berny and Fontaine Michalon. It opened on 29 July 1854, when the extension of the Sceaux line to Orsay opened, by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orsay, bought in 1857 by the Paris-Orléans company. The building was enlarged around 1889, then rebuilt in a cutting in 1933 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris, with a second entrance topped by an Art Deco bell tower.
Anecdote
A new station building was built above the tracks in 1960, the covering of the tracks in 1980 created a forecourt, and the present station entered service in June 2002. On 2 October 1991 the Orlyval line opened, with dedicated facilities in the station, which is its western terminus: it links the station to Paris-Orly airport. In 1868 the line crossed the Bièvre between Antony and Massy. A decree of 1868 had declared the occupation of land to enlarge the station, grown too small, to be of public utility.
Around Antony
- Orlyval, 280 m away — A driverless automated shuttle linking the RER B directly to Orly airport.