Auvers-sur-Oise: station history
Served by: Transilien H.
Did you know?
A station in the Val-d'Oise belonging to the SNCF, put into service in 1846 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord. The "Auvers station" opened with the Paris to Lille and Valenciennes line; it lies between Pontoise and L'Isle-Adam, about 34 kilometres from Paris. It has a station building, platforms that have not been raised and an underpass to pass from one platform to the other. A ticket office is open Monday to Friday, with a machine for tickets.
Anecdote
The goods building houses the bookshop "La Caverne aux Livres", also installed in former mail wagons. In May 2008 the painter François Laval, whose studio adjoins the station, painted a 200-square-metre mural in the underpass showing sites of Auvers, the four seasons, the Vexin and imaginary trains. In April 2012 he painted a second, sepia monochrome mural on an SNCF technical building: it evokes Auvers, the railway world of the past, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Daubigny. A direct train links Gare du Nord in under 45 minutes on weekends and public holidays, from April to October, for tourists.
Around Auvers-sur-Oise
- Maison de Van Gogh (auberge Ravoux), 320 m away — The inn where Vincent van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life and painted nearly 80 canvases, in 1890.
- Cimetière d'Auvers-sur-Oise, 800 m away — The ivy-covered graves of Vincent van Gogh and his brother Théo, now a place of worldwide pilgrimage.