Bourg-la-Reine: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
A RER B station in the Hauts-de-Seine, on the former Sceaux line. This is where the line splits into two branches, towards Robinson and towards Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, hence its Y shape. It is at kilometre point 6.8 of the RATP part of the line, numbering starting from Denfert-Rochereau. The station has five tracks, four of them next to a platform, and three entrances: place de la Gare, rue André-Theuriet and rue des Blagis. In the early 2000s, three lifts were installed and the historic building renovated.
Anecdote
A flyover built in the 1930s, during the renovation of the line by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris, avoids conflicts between trains running in opposite directions at the junction. A metro logo cut into hedges recalls the Sceaux line from before the RER. The service indicator signs there were presented as the first of a new generation installed on the RATP network.
Around Bourg-la-Reine
- Église Saint-Gilles, 290 m away — Home to The Ecstasy of Saint Benedict, a 1746 painting by Jean II Restout.