Javel: station history
Served by: RER C.
Did you know?
A station of the extension of the Moulineaux line, put into service on a 15th by the Compagnie de l'Ouest, the day an Exposition opened. Now run by the SNCF, it was first named Pont Mirabeau. Four new intermediate stations were created on this extension, including this one, and the line ran in a cutting along the Seine as soon as it entered Paris, which removed all level crossings.
Anecdote
The station building, designed by the architect Juste Lisch, takes the form of a Chinese pagoda on the street side, straddling the tracks; two staircases lead to each platform. Around 1910 the Pont de Grenelle station, 432 metres away, was merged with Pont Mirabeau, before disappearing in 1919. Since 1937 this building has been the only one left of those built for the extension. The station would later take the name Javel André-Citroën.
Around Javel
- Parc André-Citroën, 350 m away — A park laid out on the site of the former Citroën factories, with large greenhouses and water jets.
- Église Saint-Christophe-de-Javel, 220 m away — A reinforced-concrete church of the 1920s-30s in the Art Deco style.