Palaiseau-Villebon: station history
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
An RER line B station, run by RATP, on the Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse branch of the Sceaux line. Passengers crossed the tracks there on a footbridge that had replaced an older plank crossing; in November 2007 the footbridge was replaced by an underpass. The station is served by several bus lines of the Mobicaps and Paris-Saclay networks and, at night, by Noctilien line N122.
Anecdote
Villebon-sur-Yvette is recorded in the 12th century as Villabona, from a Gallo-Roman villa. Its Renaissance château was built in 1512 for Augustin de Thou, and the Henri IV pavilion survives. On the right bank of the Yvette, which forms its natural boundary with Palaiseau, the commune had its own station, Villebon-État, opened in 1930 on the Ouest-Ceinture to Chartres line, closed to passengers in 1939 and declassified in 1953. In 1969 the commune hosted the start of the Paris-Nice prologue.
Around Palaiseau-Villebon
- École polytechnique, 2100 m away — A grande école founded in 1794, installed on the Palaiseau plateau in 1976.
- Forêt de Palaiseau, 3100 m away — A young forest of broadleaf trees and meadows created by the State in 1976 and managed by the ONF.