Le Guichet: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
A station in Orsay, on RER line B run by the RATP. Its building is made of meulière stone. Part of the platforms stand above the RN 118 road, on a 19-metre prestressed-concrete bridge built in 1964-1965, among the first works of this kind in France. It replaced the former terminus of the Sceaux line, the gare des Planches.
Anecdote
The place name "Le Guichet" already appears on the Cassini map, around 1756, about a kilometre further north. Its name recalls the "journée du Guichet", on 25 September 1609, not a station ticket window. The footbridge replaced a crossing made of planks, now superseded by an underpass. Buses link the station to the schools and laboratories of the Saclay plateau.
Around Le Guichet
- Parc botanique de Launay, 2000 m away — Orsay's botanical park, one of the town's walking spots.