La Ferté-sous-Jouarre: station history
Served by: Transilien P.
Did you know?
A Seine-et-Marne station whose provisional station was put into service on 26 August 1849 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg, when the Meaux to Épernay section opened. In 1854 the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est succeeded it and had a permanent station building constructed: a type 7, the company's standard model, with a central block of four openings, two symmetrical wings and a low-pitched roof.
Anecdote
The station withstood the fighting of September 1914, but was reduced to ruins in the German offensive of 1918: two bombs fell at 10:40 pm and killed several people, including the stationmaster. After the war a large « Reconstruction » station was built in millstone, a typical local material. In 1866 a ticket to Paris cost 7.40 F in first class, 5.55 F in second and 4.05 F in third. An imperial decree of 3 August 1860 had declared the purchase of land to enlarge it a matter of public utility.
Around La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre, 2400 m away — An abbey with a church, a Merovingian crypt and a Romanesque part, still inhabited by Benedictine nuns.