Massy-Palaiseau: station history
Served by: RER B and C, Transilien V.
Did you know?
A station opened by the Paris-Orléans company on the Sceaux line, inaugurated on 7 June 1846. The Art Deco building of the RATP station was designed by Louis Brachet between 1934 and 1938; it has two superimposed halls, a reinforced-concrete frame and interior mosaics. The SNCF building dates from 1883 and resembles the one at Argenteuil-Grande-Ceinture. The site brings together three stations: the RATP one, the SNCF one and the Massy TGV station.
Anecdote
The station took the name "Massy - Palaiseau" because it lies halfway between the stations of Massy, now Massy - Verrières, and Palaiseau. The Atlantique high-speed line crosses the site in a covered trench, and a glass-lined footbridge 241 m long and 9 m wide opened in 2012. The station is a setting in the Blake and Mortimer album SOS Météores, and Renaud devoted Le Tango de Massy-Palaiseau (1977) to it. Its name is also cited in Saucisson de cheval n° 2, by Boby Lapointe.
Around Massy-Palaiseau
- Église luthérienne Saint-Marc de Massy, 1500 m away — A Lutheran church in Massy noted for its architecture.