Combs-la-Ville-Quincy: station history
Served by: RER D.
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A RER line D station in Seine-et-Marne, on the Paris-Lyon to Marseille-Saint-Charles line, at kilometre point 25.896, between Boussy-Saint-Antoine and Lieusaint-Moissy. It was opened in 1849 by the Compagnie de Paris à Lyon, after work had begun in the commune as early as 1846. The line was integrated into RER D on 24 September 1995.
Anecdote
The original building, put up in 1846 by the architect François-Alexis Cendrier, was a third-class station « with two doors ». It was demolished in 1981 and replaced. In the early 1980s the station received five tracks and a PRS signal box, which allows TGV trains to be routed onto the high-speed line, whose first section opened in 1981. In 1850 a single fare from Paris to Combs cost 2.70 F in first class, 2.00 F in second and 1.50 F in third, for a journey about three times faster than by road.
Around Combs-la-Ville-Quincy
- Église Saint-Vincent de Combs-la-Ville, 2200 m away — The church of Combs-la-Ville's old Brie village.
- Château de la Fresnaye, 1700 m away — A historic residence in Combs-la-Ville, listed among the town's châteaux.
- Église Sainte-Croix de Quincy-sous-Sénart, 450 m away — The church of Quincy-sous-Sénart, in the heart of the village.