Nemours-Saint-Pierre: station history
Served by: Transilien R.
Did you know?
A Seine-et-Marne station opened in 1862 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM). Its large station building stands in the commune of Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, on the border with Nemours. Destroyed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, it was rebuilt identically in 1881 and is still in use. In October 1870, uhlans had been surprised by mobilised men in an inn near the station; a few days later the enemy returned in force and burned the inn, fourteen neighbouring houses and the station, which was totally destroyed.
Anecdote
The name evolved: in 1881 the conseil général asked for the station to be named Nemours-Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours; the PLM renamed it "Nemours - Saint-Pierre" around the 1920s or 1930s, while the 1911 nomenclature still called it "gare de Nemours". An underpass gives access to the platforms, and two lifts were installed there in 2016 during accessibility works. On track 1, the platform is interrupted in the middle for the passage to sidings: passengers must step down onto the track for about twenty metres, a zone marked on the ground.
Around Nemours-Saint-Pierre
- Château-musée de Nemours, 500 m away — A 12th-century town château on the left bank of the Loing, one of the few in the Île-de-France region to survive almost intact.
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 400 m away — A church whose tower dates from the 12th century, most of it from the 16th, with a very slender spire.
- Musée départemental de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France, 1800 m away — Opened in 1981, it shows 3,400 objects from a collection of over two million.