Compans: station history
Served by: Transilien K.
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A halt in Seine-et-Marne on the La Plaine to Hirson and Anor line, served by Transilien line K, at kilometre point 29.107 and an altitude of 73 metres, between Mitry-Claye and Thieux-Nantouillet. The Sevran to Villers-Cotterêts section opened on 31 August 1861, but without a halt at Compans. The track is on an embankment and two 231-metre platforms are linked by two staircases, on either side of a railway bridge over rue Saint-Lambert.
Anecdote
Before the halt arrived, the people of Compans had to travel about four kilometres to catch a train at Mitry-Claye. A postcard published before 1907 by a town councillor, Decoudun, an innkeeper and shopkeeper in the village, shows a train hauled by the locomotive « Nord 2 294 ». In the 1990s the halt still had no shelter on its platforms.
Around Compans
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, 950 m away — A church entirely rebuilt in 1867, which keeps an altarpiece given in 1699 and clear-glass windows from 1767, making it very bright.
- Moulin d'Ouacre, 1950 m away — A mill driven by the Biberonne stream, dating back to the 12th century.
- Château de Compans, 1000 m away — A neo-Louis XIII château in stone and red brick, built in 1866 by the Vallé des Noyers family and now divided into flats.