Nézel-Aulnay: station history
Served by: Transilien N.
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A station in the Yvelines opened on 30 August 1900 with the Plaisir - Grignon to Épône - Mézières line. It stands at 30 m altitude, at kilometre point 47.968, between the stations of Maule and Épône - Mézières, and is the last before the junction towards Mantes-la-Jolie or Paris-Saint-Lazare. Served by Transilien line N, it has two side platforms of 220 m usable length each; changing platforms is done by a boarded crossing laid between the tracks, a protected passage. The station building has no ticket office.
Anecdote
The name joins two neighbouring villages. The village of Nézel, whose name is a diminutive in -el of Noisy-le-Roi, is recorded around 1205 as Noisi and Nezeel; its small stone church of Saint-Blaise dates from 1546, and its two-arched stone bridge over the Mauldre was built in 1758. The dovecote is the only remnant of its château. In 2020, 3,500 vines were planted there, reviving an old winemaking tradition.
Around Nézel-Aulnay
- Église Saint-Blaise de Nézel, 1550 m away — A stone church of 1546, whose belfry holds two bells cast in 1884.
- Vieux Pont de Nézel, 1400 m away — A two-arched stone bridge over the Mauldre, built in 1758 by the lord of the manor Louis-Urbain Aubert de Tourny.