Changis-Saint-Jean: station history
Served by: Transilien P.
Did you know?
A Transilien line P station in Seine-et-Marne, on the Noisy-le-Sec to Strasbourg-Ville line, at kilometre point 57.691, between Trilport and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, at an altitude of 64 metres. It opened on 26 August 1849 with the Meaux–Épernay section of the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg. To cut costs and speed up construction, the State first had temporary wooden buildings erected, which the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est quickly replaced; the present building is of type 7.
Anecdote
At Changis-sur-Marne, a gravel quarry yielded in 2012 the remains of two woolly mammoths, including « Helmut », almost complete, who stood nearly three metres at the shoulder and weighed four to five tonnes. He lived in the Middle Palaeolithic, between 200,000 and 50,000 years before our era. Flint flakes found near the skull suggest a possible encounter with Neanderthals, through scavenging or hunting followed by butchering.
Around Changis-Saint-Jean
- Église Sainte-Madeleine de Changis, 650 m away — An 18th-century church in the village of Changis-sur-Marne.