Ormoy-Villers: station history
Served by: Transilien K.
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An SNCF halt in the Oise, served by the all-stops trains of Transilien line K since 2017, the only line serving it today. It is an unstaffed stopping point with free entry, open to freight. It has two platforms: platform 1 is 242 metres of useful length for track 2, and platform 2, a central one, is 236 metres for tracks 1 and 2, with a footbridge to pass from one platform to the other. A former passenger building stands near the halt, where parking is possible.
Anecdote
The station was a junction, the origin of the Ormoy-Villers to Boves line, partly declassified, and it was also served by the Chantilly-Gouvieux to Crépy-en-Valois line and by the Ormoy-Villers to Mareuil-sur-Ourcq line, both closed. In 1894 a single-track line linked it to Mareuil-sur-l'Ourcq via Betz; in 1917 a connection between the Mareuil and Paris lines came into service. The Boves line is nicknamed the "coal line": it was meant to relieve the Paris-Nord – Boves line via Creil and was to be electrified, but only the section as far as the Rivecourt junction was, in 1963. For twenty-seven years the halt was the junction of five lines, for freight only.