La Garenne-Colombes: station history
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A station in the Hauts-de-Seine, largely on the territory of Colombes, with its main entrance in La Garenne-Colombes. The first station, Colombes-Embranchement, opened in 1837 west of the Charlebourg bridge; the present station, first called La Garenne-Bezons, was opened in 1887 by the Compagnie de l'Ouest and replaced it for passengers. It was renamed La Garenne-Colombes in September 1985. The original building is in rendered brick.
Anecdote
In 1838 the commune, rural and with about 1,700 inhabitants, asked for a halt; Émile Pereire refused, judging that it would disrupt train running. In 1893 the station became a transit point between the Saint-Germain line and the Normandy line. In the 1960s local officials asked for a name change and for the station to be modernised, but the SNCF refused several times. The goods station stayed open until 1991, and the station was declared accessible in 2015.
Around La Garenne-Colombes
- Église Saint-Urbain, 300 m away — A church that became a parish church in 1907, built in the 1870s, with a Charles Lorin window of 1912.