La Celle-Saint-Cloud: station history
Served by: Transilien L.
Did you know?
A halt in the Yvelines originally named « La Châtaigneraie-Beauregard », on the Saint-Cloud to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche line, now served by Transilien line L. The line, inaugurated in 1884, ran through the commune without a stop. Requests for a halt in 1895 and 1925 failed because of the steep gradient (14.5 mm per metre), unsuitable for steam traction. In 1955 a plan for a new district on the Beauregard estate revived the idea.
Anecdote
The City of Paris built 1,500 homes on land donated by Count of Bendern, whose name comes from a village in Liechtenstein. To reduce the gradient to 6 mm per metre, a 283-metre connecting ramp was built. The final cost was 1,320,000 francs, against 1,130,000 estimated in 1958. The footbridge was raised in 1976, when the line was re-electrified at 25 kV. The station stands at 129 metres, at kilometre point 20.695, between Vaucresson and Bougival.
Around La Celle-Saint-Cloud
- Villa Viardot, 2200 m away — A neoclassical villa of 1830 where the singer Pauline Viardot lived, next to the dacha.