Louveciennes: station history
Served by: Transilien L.
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A station opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, with the first train welcomed by the stationmaster on 5 May 1884. Its station building is the standard model for third-class stations on the Grande Ceinture de Paris line, designed by the engineer Luneau, like the one at Marly-le-Roi. Louveciennes, Bougival and Vaucresson are the only stations to have kept their original canopies.
Anecdote
Works began in April 1881, with the Rougemonts cutting, a high embankment and a tunnel under the Versailles road. On 31 December 1881, a landslide buried three workers, one of whom died. In 1931, during the third-rail electrification, the town had an underpass built at its own expense rather than the footbridge proposed by the State, financed by a temporary surcharge on tickets. The overhead line reached the Saint-Nom terminus on 16 September 1978.
Around Louveciennes
- Machine de Marly (vestiges), 900 m away — Remains of the Bougival hydraulic machine that supplied water to Versailles and Marly.
- Forêt de Louveciennes, 1400 m away — A forest between Bougival and Louveciennes, crisscrossed by paths.