Choisy-le-Roi: station history
Served by: RER C.
Did you know?
A RER C station, put into service in 1840 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans, when the Paris to Juvisy section opened. It is at kilometre point 9.480 of the Paris-Austerlitz to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean line, between Les Ardoines and Villeneuve-le-Roi, and is the starting point of the Choisy-le-Roi to Massy - Verrières line. The original building, built in a cutting with a frieze of ceramic tiles reading « Chemin de fer d'Orléans », was demolished; the RER station is a small concrete building with a W-shaped roof.
Anecdote
The station has six tracks, including two central tracks without platforms, reserved for trains that do not serve Choisy (Intercités, TER, RER to Étampes, Dourdan or Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). The old station was converted into a youth centre, then a dance studio, the Pavillon des Lions. The text compares the station with that of Vitry-sur-Seine, which has an inverted layout. Tram T9 stops about 500 metres away.
Around Choisy-le-Roi
- Statue de Rouget de Lisle, 650 m away — A tribute to the author of La Marseillaise, who died in Choisy-le-Roi in 1836.