Gargenville: station history

Served by: Transilien J.

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A station in the Yvelines on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie line, at kilometre point 49.530 and an altitude of 47 metres, 49.5 kilometres from Paris-Saint-Lazare. The line section where it lies opened on 1 June 1892. It is run by the SNCF and served by Transilien line J, since 2004, with Z 50000 trains since 20 February 2019.

Anecdote

The line was electrified throughout at 25 kV, 50 Hz, on 27 March 1967. The station appears in The Train, John Frankenheimer's 1964 film, in a scene showing an air raid on a station. It is served by buses 20 and 82 of the Mantois network and by an on-demand transport service.

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