Garges-Sarcelles: station history
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
A Val-d'Oise station, opened on 11 January 1959 as a simple stopping point on the Saint-Denis to Creil line, to serve the Dame Blanche housing estate and the Lochères development. It stands on the boundary of Garges-lès-Gonesse and Sarcelles. It is served by RER D.
Anecdote
For over a century the two communes asked in vain for a stop from the Compagnie du Nord. The station was enlarged in 1965 and rebuilt in 1988. In the early 1990s a fifth track was laid nearby during construction of the LGV Nord, between Pierrefitte and the Gonesse junction. It is the terminus of tramway T5, on its forecourt, and could be served by metro line 19 by around 2040.
Around Garges-Sarcelles
- Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Sarcelles, 2500 m away — A building mixing Romanesque, early Gothic, Flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance, linked to a gift of land to the Abbey of Saint-Denis in 894.