Juvisy: station history
Served by: RER C and D.
Did you know?
An Essonne station put into service in 1843 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans. In the early 1860s it became shared by the PO and the PLM. A temporary wooden building was replaced in 1846-1847 by a masonry building by the engineer Adolphe Jullien. The present building, opened in 1907, is recognisable by its clock tower. With thirteen tracks, twelve of them at platforms, it is the largest station in Île-de-France by number of tracks outside inner Paris.
Anecdote
The station is the only interchange point between the networks that come from the Austerlitz and Lyon stations. A marshalling yard developed there from the 1880s; it closed in 1986. In April 1944 Allied bombing, in preparation for the landings, destroyed it: the deadliest raid, on the night of 17 to 18 April, killed 125 people in Juvisy and 267 in Athis-Mons. The station square pays tribute to two railwaymen, Marcel Banette and Louis Planchon, who prevented a derailment at L'Arbresle before dying of their burns.
Around Juvisy
- Observatoire de Juvisy, 700 m away — An observatory founded by astronomer Camille Flammarion in 1883, still fitted with its original instruments.