Chaumont-en-Vexin: station history
Served by: Transilien J.
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A Transilien line J station in the Oise, on the Saint-Denis to Dieppe line, at kilometre point 60.523, between Liancourt-Saint-Pierre and Trie-Château, at an altitude of 84 metres. One train runs every two hours off-peak, and every 20 to 30 minutes at peak hours. The station is served by several lines of the Oise intercity network: 604, 608, 609, 6105, 6106, 6107, 6133 and 6136. The page gives neither an opening date nor a description of the building.
Anecdote
Above the town, an isolated hill 400 metres across, rising about 60 metres above the Troesne valley, bears the remains of a former castle, one of the most powerful of the early Capetians, a base against Normandy. In 1098, William Rufus besieged the place, but the inhabitants drove him back; in 1159, Henry II of England took it by assault. In 1260, when the duchy of Normandy was definitively joined to the crown under Saint Louis, the castle lost its purpose and fell into ruin.