Luzarches: station history
Served by: Transilien H.
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A station in the Val-d'Oise opened in 1880 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, together with the Montsoult - Maffliers to Luzarches line, a short eleven-kilometre branch. This section was meant to be part of a Paris to Chantilly line, but that extension was never built. The station building follows the company's model for small stations, with a central block of three bays and two low wings.
Anecdote
It stands out for a tall pediment housing the clock on the street side, described as a rarer example; the façade, originally stone, is now rendered. The station is the dead-end terminus of the line, at kilometre point 35.500, 69 metres above sea level. Its main platform was raised in 2010 to receive the Francilien, whose first commercial run was inaugurated here. Its single set of points is controlled remotely from Montsoult.
Around Luzarches
- Église Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien, 1000 m away — A medieval church with an unfinished 13th-century Gothic façade, unchanged for nearly 800 years.