Palaiseau: station history
Served by: RER B.
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An RER line B station, on the Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse branch of the Sceaux line, belonging to RATP. Passengers once crossed the tracks on a plank walkway, replaced by a footbridge, itself replaced by the present footbridge, equipped with lifts. The station is served by lines 1, 14, Y and Z of the Paris-Saclay bus network and, at night, by Noctilien line N122, which links place du Châtelet to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse.
Anecdote
The commune of Palaiseau is home to the campus of the École polytechnique, whose move had been decided in 1964 and works begun in 1970. It was inaugurated in 1976, and the class of 1975 started there in August 1976. The campus covers 160 hectares, with 16 lecture halls, the largest of which, the Poincaré amphitheatre, seats 780. It keeps some names of old buildings from the montagne Sainte-Geneviève, such as the Boncourt, Foch and Joffre pavilions.