Fontenay-sous-Bois: station history
Served by: RER A.
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An underground station in the Val-de-Marne on RER line A, opened in its present form in 1969. It has three entrances: place Moreau-David, boulevard de Vincennes and avenue des Charmes. It lies east of the junction of the two eastern branches of line A, and is served by buses 124 and 210.
Anecdote
Track 1 of branch A2 passes over the tracks of branch A4, whose trains do not serve the station. The Île-de-France master plan foresaw making Fontenay-sous-Bois a junction station for the eastern branches of line A for the period 2014-2020, a project not taken up in the 2012 RER A master plan. A photograph of the entrance to the old station dates from about 1904.
Around Fontenay-sous-Bois
- Église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 400 m away — Built under Francis I (bells christened in 1534) on the site of a modest chapel recorded as early as 982; listed as a historic monument.
- Pavillon Baltard (Nogent-sur-Marne), 1800 m away — The last surviving pavilion of Paris's Les Halles designed by Victor Baltard, rebuilt in Nogent in 1976 and listed as a historic monument in 1982.
- Château de Vincennes, 2800 m away — A royal fortress whose 52-metre keep is the tallest medieval keep in Europe.