Conflans-Sainte-Honorine: station history
Served by: Transilien J.
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A station in the Yvelines (line J) on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie line via Conflans, at kilometre point 24.570, where it connects with the Achères to Pontoise line. It opened on 1 June 1892. The present station building dates from 1993.
Anecdote
The station was created for a small town of about 1,800 inhabitants, whose farmers grew the Conflans golden chasselas, a table grape. The journey to Paris took about forty minutes. Locomotives took on water pumped from the Oise by a pump under the Eiffel bridge, which sent it through a pipe of about 1,800 metres to the station's water towers.
Around Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
- Musée de la Batellerie et des voies navigables, 500 m away — A 'Musée de France' in the Château du Prieuré, rebuilt in the 19th century in Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance style.
- Tour Montjoie, 850 m away — A remnant of the medieval château of the lords of Beaumont, on a rocky spur overlooking the Seine.
- Église Saint-Maclou, 750 m away — A church listed as a historic monument in 1862, in the heart of old Conflans.