Breuillet-Village: station history
Served by: RER C.
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A station on branch C4 of RER C, in the commune of Breuillet (Essonne), between Breuillet - Bruyères-le-Châtel and Saint-Chéron, at an altitude of 59 metres, on the Brétigny to La Membrolle-sur-Choisille line. The line was made double-track in 1901, then electrified in 1924 at 1,500 volts between Brétigny and Dourdan, before being integrated into RER C in 1979. The station has a ticket office open every day, a bicycle park and a car park, and is served by buses 68.02 and 68.06 as well as two on-demand services.
Anecdote
During the Battle of France, a company of the 3rd Zouave regiment set up an anti-tank barrier on the Rémarde. Attacked at 1:45 pm at the pont de la Folleville, under the command of Lieutenant Paul Conty, the barrier cost nine soldiers their lives; since 2014 the bridge has borne the name pont du Lieutenant Conty. The Port-Sud district, launched in the late 1960s around a 6.2-hectare artificial lake, took the commune's population from 2,600 to 6,500 between 1968 and 1975.