Cormeilles-en-Parisis: station history
Served by: Transilien J.
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A Val-d'Oise station (line J) on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie line via Conflans, at kilometre point 16.299, between Val d'Argenteuil and La Frette - Montigny. Its station building stands on place Pierre-Semard. The former goods shed was demolished in June 2019, and the old platform became a dead-end track.
Anecdote
The central platform can only be reached by an underpass, and the station was not wheelchair accessible in September 2023. The town lies at the foot of the buttes du Parisis, a wooded range of hills of about 465 hectares whose gypsum deposits make it one of the richest sites in Europe: in 1832 the Lambert family opened a quarry there that would become the largest open-cast gypsum quarry in Europe. The Cormeilles fort stands at the western end of the range.
Around Cormeilles-en-Parisis
- Église Saint-Martin, 750 m away — A church listed as a historic monument in 1997, with its high tower and 12th-century Gothic crypt.
- Fort de Cormeilles, 1500 m away — A historic military fort above the town.