Mantes-Station: station history
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A station on the border of Mantes-la-Jolie and Mantes-la-Ville, on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Le Havre line, opened with the track between Colombes-Embranchement and Rouen (date not given). It marks the end of the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Mantes-Station line via Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. It is a junction station, 31 metres above sea level, at PK 56.108. The building was renovated in 2009, with ticket gates on either side of the footbridge leading to the platforms.
Anecdote
Trains on line N once stopped here; this stop was removed when the timetable was made regular-interval. Since 2010, housing, offices, shops and a nursery have been built on the former site of the Mantes-la-Jolie hospital, opposite the station, in the Mantes-Université development zone, with the town's music school nearby since 2006. A photograph from the early twentieth century shows the station with a famous "Bidel" set of double-deck carriages, some open and some closed.
Around Mantes-Station
- Collégiale Notre-Dame de Mantes, 350 m away — A Gothic collegiate church begun in the 1150s, listed in 1840.
- Tour Saint-Maclou, 150 m away — A 16th-century tower, the last remnant of Saint-Maclou church.
- Vieux pont de Limay, 700 m away — A medieval bridge over the Seine between Mantes and Limay.