Chaville-Rive-Droite: station history
Served by: Transilien L and U.
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A station on Transilien lines L and U, on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles-Rive-Droite line, at kilometre point 18.605, in a cutting, north of the centre of Chaville, at an altitude of 107 metres. It was opened by the Société anonyme du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Cloud et Versailles. From the start, passenger numbers were very low: in 1844, the Company closed the station and stopped trains calling without notice. Between 1863 and 1865, it received only seven to eleven passengers a day.
Anecdote
The Company asked for its closure, but the administration kept it at the municipality's request. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 the installations were destroyed, causing a new closure; in 1880 and again in 1887 the commune failed to convince the Company to reopen it, judging the cost of 50,000 francs of works too high. The station finally reopened on a Sunday for stopping trains to Versailles-Rive-Droite, and a second-class return ticket from Paris-Saint-Lazare then cost one franc eighty.
Around Chaville-Rive-Droite
- Bois de Chaville, 750 m away — A wooded ridge between Chaville, Viroflay, Meudon and Ville-d'Avray, keeping former layouts, the restored Morval bridge and a path of Gallo-Roman origin.
- Église Sainte-Bernadette, 1600 m away — A church of 1961-62 alternating Saint-Maximin stone and raw concrete, with a Way of the Cross by Danièle Fuchs, a candidate for the 'Patrimoine d'intérêt régional' label.
- Forêt de Fausses-Reposes, 1700 m away — A 616-hectare protection forest straddling the Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines, bordering Chaville.