Dourdan: station history
Served by: RER C.
Did you know?
An Essonne station on the Brétigny to La Membrolle-sur-Choisille line, at kilometre point 55.542 and an altitude of 118 metres, between Sermaise and Dourdan - La Forêt. It opened with the Brétigny to Vendôme section of the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans. It is served by branch C4 of RER C and by a few TER trains to Vendôme and Châteaudun. Track 1 runs alongside a side platform and an underpass leads to the central platform.
Anecdote
The station is open to freight only for block trains. A project to refurbish the building was announced for July 2014. The Dourdan forest, a state forest of 1,582 hectares managed by the ONF and crossed by the GR 1 and GR 111 long-distance paths, shelters the « chêne des Six Frères », a sessile oak about 500 years old, 33 metres tall, whose stump splits into six trunks.
Around Dourdan
- Château de Dourdan, 1100 m away — A 12th-century medieval fortress built by Philippe Auguste, one of the best-preserved in the Paris region.