Bougival: station history
Served by: Transilien L.
Did you know?
A Transilien line L station in Bougival (Yvelines), at an altitude of 116 metres, on a hillside, south-west of the town centre. It was opened in 1884 by the Compagnie de l'Ouest. Built on the territory of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, at the far west of Bougival, it was first called Bougival - La Celle-Saint-Cloud; a new station, opened in 1959 as La Châtaigneraie-Beauregard, was renamed La Celle-Saint-Cloud on 29 May 1983, and the station then became plain Bougival.
Anecdote
Bougival is the only station on the line with a water tower, which fed steam locomotives through two hydraulic cranes at the head of the platform. With Louveciennes and Vaucresson, it is one of three stations to have kept its canopy and a matching shelter on the opposite platform. Several years running, the station took part in the flowered stations competition, and a pond on the platform towards Paris remains a trace of the efforts of its former station master.
Around Bougival
- Musée Européen Ivan Tourgueniev, 310 m away — The only museum devoted to Turgenev outside Russia according to tourist sources, opened in 1983.
- Machine de Marly (vestiges), 1750 m away — Remains of the hydraulic machine that pumped Seine water for the fountains of Versailles and Marly in the late 17th century.