Noisy-le-Grand-Mont-d'Est: station history
Served by: RER A.
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A station on RER line A, put into service by the RATP on 9 December 1977 to accompany the development of the new town of Marne-la-Vallée and serve the regional urban centre of Mont d'Est, whose name, a district of Noisy-le-Grand, it bears. It was the terminus of branch A4 until its extension to Torcy in 1980. The platforms are entirely underground and decorated in the Andreu-Motte style of the Paris metro, in red, with white Motte seats; the station has two platforms flanking three tracks, including a "siding" track on the Chessy side to ease track changes for terminating trains, and four entrances.
Anecdote
A new bus station, inaugurated on 28 June 2013, was built on a slab covering the RER A tracks on the Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy side: it takes more than 11 bus lines, against 8 before. The platform extension made in 2013 has neither benches nor red band, and its white seats rest on a black metal structure. The station also houses a ghost metro line of the SK system, completely built in the 1990s but never opened, the office district it was meant to serve never having been built.
Around Noisy-le-Grand-Mont-d'Est
- Les Espaces d'Abraxas, 500 m away — A monumental postmodern housing complex by Ricardo Bofill, a filming location for 'Brazil' and 'The Hunger Games'.