Breuillet-Bruyères-le-Châtel: station history
Served by: RER C.
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A RER C station in the commune of Breuillet (Essonne), near Bruyères-le-Châtel, between Égly and Breuillet-Village, on the Brétigny to La Membrolle-sur-Choisille line, at an altitude of 56 metres. Its station building has a ticket office, open from Monday to Friday, with real-time timetable displays, a bicycle park and a car park. The name Breuillet is a diminutive of « breuil », an Old French word derived from Gaulish that means a small enclosed wood.
Anecdote
The château du Chapitre, from the late 16th century, has housed Breuillet's town hall since 2011, and the church of Saint-Pierre, from the 14th century, was deeply remodelled in 1688. In the parc du Moulin, the « Fresque du travail », a high relief 8 metres by 2, pays tribute to the builders of the 1900 Universal Exhibition; it is the work of the sculptor Anatole Guillot and the ceramist Émile Müller. The Hôtel du Bout du Monde was a location for the film « 10 jours en or » (2012).