Orry-la-Ville-Coye: station history
Served by: RER D.
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A station in the Oise belonging to the SNCF, on the direct Saint-Denis to Creil line via Survilliers-Fosses, opened after six years of study. Its passenger buildings follow the "standard model of second-class stations" of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, designed by the architect Jules Léon Lejeune; the end pavilions housed the stationmaster and the deputy stationmaster. In 1907 the station became first class: a floor was added to each pavilion and the central pediment was altered. It lies halfway between the communes of Orry-la-Ville and Coye-la-Forêt.
Anecdote
During the First World War the station served as a sorting station for soldiers on leave: billets able to take 2,000 soldiers were set up nearby. The stopping point "La Borne Blanche" takes its name from a small neighbouring château, now the seat of the Oise-Pays de France regional nature park. The station and its surroundings form an enclave isolated from residential areas, in the middle of the listed site of the Chantilly forest. It has four tracks and three platforms: tracks 3 and 4 form the terminus of RER line D, branch D1, and tracks 1 and 2 are reserved for mainline and TER trains. The four-tracking of the Paris–Creil line was never completed, because of the construction of the LGV Nord.