Lozère: station history
Served by: RER B.
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A station in Palaiseau, on the Sceaux line, served by RER line B and run by the RATP. It is in the Lozère district, and its north façade faces the street. The tracks are crossed by a pedestrian tunnel or a footbridge, which replaced an old crossing made of planks. A market was held on the station square until the 1970s.
Anecdote
The station gives access to five major engineering and science schools: École polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, SupOptique and Télécom Paris, with Télécom SudParis. A path, called sentier de l'École Polytechnique on official maps, climbs towards the plateau to the north by a staircase of about 300 steps. After the renovation and accessibility works, it ranked 61st of the 65 RATP RER stations made accessible.
Around Lozère
- Sentier de la Gloire, 800 m away — A staircase with a drop of about fifty metres that climbs from the station to the plateau and the École polytechnique.
- École polytechnique, 1050 m away — A grande école installed on the Palaiseau plateau in 1976; its grounds include a large artificial lake.