Noisy-le-Sec: station history
Served by: RER E.
Did you know?
A Seine-Saint-Denis station opened in 1849 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg, during construction of the Paris - Meaux section. The company closed it to move it towards Bondy; a petition of 12,000 users obtained its reopening in 1854. The original type 7 building was replaced in 1910 by a new building with a cut-stone façade, which opens onto the tracks through a covered metal footbridge. With the opening of the line towards Nogent-sur-Marne, the station became a junction station. A marshalling yard was enlarged in 1885 and a depot-workshop was created in 1908.
Anecdote
At the section's inauguration, the train stopped at Noisy-le-Sec so that guests could discover "the elegant provisional station built of wood". During the First World War, the station became the most important regulating station in France for troop transport; during the first battle of the Marne, requisitioned Paris taxis carried infantry units from there to the front. Standing at 58 metres above sea level, it is now a junction station on line E; tramway T1 had its terminus there from 2003 to 2022.
Around Noisy-le-Sec
- Église Saint-Étienne, 200 m away — The only monument that recalls the town's village past; it lost its bell tower in the 1944 bombings.
- Canal de l'Ourcq, 1400 m away — Created by a decree of Napoleon on 19 May 1802, this 108.1-km canal brings the Ourcq's water to the Villette basin. Reserved for non-drinking uses since 1983, it also serves pleasure boating.