Les Vallées: station history
Served by: Transilien L.
Did you know?
A station opened in 1897 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, on the border of Bois-Colombes, Colombes and La Garenne-Colombes. Its station building, built in 1895-1897, is made of stone with brick quoins, under a gabled roof, with a canopy on the platform side. It is listed in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. A first station, set up in 1844 at the pont de la Puce, had been ransacked, looted and burned during the events of 1848.
Anecdote
From 1889, residents asked for a station on the new connection; the company first refused, then agreed in 1891 on condition that the town bear most of the cost, through a subscription and a municipal contribution. The station became the centre of a new district. It appears in the album Caroline aux sports d'hiver by Pierre Probst (1959) and in the film Le Cri du cormoran le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971) by Michel Audiard.
Around Les Vallées
- Gare de Bois-Colombes, 1550 m away — A historic station on the Paris–Saint-Germain line, designed by the architect Urbain Cassan, which turned the Bois de Colombes into a town.
- Église Saint-Urbain, 700 m away — La Garenne-Colombes' church, a parish since 1907, decorated with a Charles Lorin window of 1912.