Noisiel: origin of the name and station history
Served by: RER A.
Why this name?
An RER line A station, A4 branch, designed to accompany the development of the Marne-la-Vallée new town and to serve the commune of Noisiel, in sector 2 of the new town, the Val Maubuée. It takes its name from the Luzard district, where it stands. The station has two partly underground platforms. The underground part has Andreu-Motte decoration, that of the Paris metro, dominated by orange: tiled benches of that colour and orange lighting strips, broken here and there by purple Motte seats.
Anecdote
Three entrances serve the station: no. 1 "Grande Allée des Bois", no. 2 "Cours des Roches", which leads to the bus station, and no. 3 "Allée Jean-Paul Sartre", which serves only the platform towards Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy. Some seats are protected from the blast of trains by a glass screen. Nearby are the Chambre régionale des comptes d'Île-de-France, a branch of the École nationale des finances publiques, the Scène nationale de la Ferme du Buisson, an RATP training centre and an administrative centre of the Banque de France.
Around Noisiel
- Chocolaterie Menier, 1200 m away — Nicknamed the 'chocolate cathedral', an industrial architecture masterpiece with a frame designed by Gustave Eiffel.