Le Blanc-Mesnil: station history
Served by: RER B.
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A station in Seine-Saint-Denis served by RER line B, opened in 1980 by the SNCF. Before it, the commune was served only by Blanc-Mesnil – Drancy station, which lies in Drancy and is now Drancy station. Yet the La Plaine to Hirson line has crossed the commune since the 1860s. In town, the Sacré-Cœur church, built in 1930 by the architect Hector Caignard de Mailly in concrete and brick, served the garden city of avenue Jean-Bouin.
Anecdote
The station is 46 metres above sea level, at kilometre point 13.172, between Drancy and Aulnay-sous-Bois, 13 kilometres from Paris-Nord. It is in zone 3, with a ticket office open every day, and is reached by stairs.
Around Le Blanc-Mesnil
- Église Notre-Dame, 400 m away — Dedicated to Our Lady, like the 14th-century Annunciation chapel around which the village grew; a shell from the 'Big Bertha' gun hit it during the First World War.
- Basilique de Saint-Denis, 7800 m away — The necropolis of the kings of France, a short trip away by public transport.