Courcelle-sur-Yvette: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
A RER line B station (branch B4), on the Sceaux line, on the border of Gif-sur-Yvette and Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, in the Courcelle district. It is run by the RATP. Its building is made of millstone and an underpass replaced a crossing of the tracks on planks.
Anecdote
The station was first set up from the enlarged level-crossing keeper's house. When the RER was put on a viaduct, the last level crossing, chemin de Jaumeron, disappeared. During the First World War the Château de Courcelle served as an auxiliary hospital for convalescent soldiers. The Benoît-Frachon centre, the CGT's central training school, has been there since 1950. At Gif, the Paris agreements were negotiated in 1972 at the home of the painter Fernand Léger, between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ.
Around Courcelle-sur-Yvette
- Château de l'Ermitage (hôtel de ville), 1050 m away — A château completed around 1835, now Gif-sur-Yvette's town hall.
- Château de Button, 900 m away — An 18th-century château bought by the CNRS in 1946 for 12 million francs.