Bagneux: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
A RER B station on the former Sceaux line, opened by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) in the 1930s. It bears the name of Bagneux but stands on the territory of Cachan, on the edge of Bagneux, and is also called « Pont Royal », after the nearby avenue du Pont-Royal to the south. The station building is built above the two tracks and the platforms, on a fairly sharp curve, can only be reached from the west end. The station has two entrances, on avenue Aristide-Briand.
Anecdote
A few hundred metres away, along the track towards Bourg-la-Reine, a cross bears the inscription « André OX - FFI »: it recalls the Resistance fighter André Ox, born in Moscow in 1925, killed on this spot on 24 August 1944, aged 18. In the town of Bagneux, the church of Saint-Hermeland has a crypt dating from the 6th century, and Bagneux stone was used to build or restore the Arc de Triomphe, the Madeleine, the Panthéon and the Louvre.
Around Bagneux
- Église Saint-Hermeland, 1250 m away — Founded in 1011 and rebuilt in the late 12th century, it was directly influenced by the Notre-Dame de Paris building site; listed as a Historic Monument in 1862.
- Cimetière parisien de Bagneux, 1800 m away — A vast Paris cemetery with tree-lined paths and remarkable funerary monuments.