Le Bourget: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
Bourget-Drancy station was completed in 1863. Destroyed by the Prussians in 1870, it was rebuilt in 1871 and gradually grew into a large marshalling yard. The main building was renovated in 2008 as part of RER B Nord+. The old Grande Ceinture building was demolished in 2014, and the tram T11 building stands about a hundred metres to the south-west.
Anecdote
Forty-two deportation convoys left the Drancy camp through this station, mainly bound for Auschwitz; a plaque on the forecourt recalls it. An underpass leads to Drancy and the main entrance is on rue du Chevalier de la Barre. A kilometre to the east, the Le Bourget gravity marshalling yard, in Drancy, is used among other things for wagons of spent nuclear fuel. Lines 16 and 17 will have a station here, 22.5 metres deep, designed by Elizabeth de Portzamparc.
Around Le Bourget
- Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, 3500 m away — Housed at the historic airfield where Lindbergh landed in 1927, one of the world's largest aviation museums.