Évry-Courcouronnes Centre: station history
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
A station in the Essonne opened in 1975, operated by the SNCF and served by RER line D. Designed by the architect Bernard Hamburger, it is underground, and its ground-level hall has been renovated to open onto the city, with a large bay window facing the cathedral and the town hall and facades clad in red bricks. When it opened it was called "gare d'Évry - Courcouronnes" and offered luggage and small-parcel dispatch services; the suffix "Préfecture" was added later.
Anecdote
A renovation plan was launched in 2003, the works took place from May 2007 to December 2008, and the intermodal hub was inaugurated in 2009. It includes a bus station, a 440-space car park, a taxi rank and a drop-off area. In December 2014 the station was made accessible: raised platforms, lifts to standard and four new ramps. The closeness of the small Évry-Val-de-Seine station caused many traveller errors, passengers getting off there thinking they were at Évry-Courcouronnes: this is one of the reasons for the 2009 renaming. Since 9 December 2023 there has been a connection with tram line 12.
Around Évry-Courcouronnes Centre
- Cathédrale d'Évry, 850 m away — The first cathedral built in France in over a century, completed in 1995 by Mario Botta.