Dourdan-la-Forêt: station history
Served by: RER C.
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An Essonne station on the Brétigny to La Membrolle-sur-Choisille line, on branch C4 of RER C, at kilometre point 56.550 and an altitude of 114 metres, between Dourdan and the end of the line's electrification. Some line C trains terminate here and serve the town's secondary schools. The track ends at a buffer stop.
Anecdote
During the « Grands Travaux Castor » works no trains run through this station. The Dourdan forest, whose name it carries, belonged to the royal domain from Merovingian times. It passed to the Orléans family under Louis XIV and returned definitively to the State in 1870. Until 1958 it was managed as coppice with standards, then replaced by oak high forest. It shelters deer, roe deer and wild boar, some sixty species of birds and four species of woodpecker.
Around Dourdan-la-Forêt
- Château de Dourdan, 2500 m away — A fortress raised around 1220 by Philippe Auguste, with its keep and moat.
- Église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois de Dourdan, 2500 m away — The church in Dourdan's old centre.
- Forêt de Dourdan, 1700 m away — A forest massif bordering the town, which gave the station its name.