Étampes: station history
Served by: RER C.
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A station in the Essonne put into service by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans, when the 102 kilometres of its Juvisy to Orléans line opened, and belonging today to the SNCF. A junction station, it is the origin of the lines from Étampes to Beaune-la-Rolande (partly declassified) and from Étampes to Auneau-Embranchement. It has two central platforms and a side platform, framed by five tracks, and an underpass allows passengers to change platform. It is open to freight.
Anecdote
A locomotive depot was attached to the station; it was used notably to reinforce some trains on the 8 per mille ramp leading to Guillerval, on the Beauce plateau. After the depot was abandoned, the original half-roundhouse was partly destroyed, first reduced to a quarter, then to an eighth in 1964, and the neighbouring workshops were demolished in the 1990s and replaced by a car park. In 2010 a renovation brought access gates, Infogare screens for passenger information and improved signage.
Around Étampes
- Tour de Guinette, 280 m away — The remains of an 11th-century royal keep, visible from across the town of Étampes.