Pierrefitte-Stains: station history
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
A station in the Val-d'Oise and Seine-Saint-Denis opened in 1859 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, on the Saint-Denis to Creil via Chantilly line, whose works, led by the engineer Mantion, began in 1857. It has two station buildings: the historic one, for RER D, and one dedicated to tramway T11 since 2017. In 1907 it had four tracks; in 2015 a 64 m metal footbridge weighing 63 tonnes was placed over the four tracks. SNCF built an underpass there in 1983 and 1984, and a bus station was created in 1998.
Anecdote
The name changed several times: in 1944 the station was renamed "Pierrefitte-Seine" at the request of the municipality appointed under the Vichy government, then in 1967 "Pierrefitte-Seine-Saint-Denis" by SNCF, without consulting the municipalities; the elected officials of Stains obtained, after six years, a return to "Pierrefitte - Stains". The station saw a meeting between President Émile Loubet and King Edward VII, who was travelling to Marseille. It is mentioned in a track by the rap group Ministère A.M.E.R., on the album "95200".
Around Pierrefitte-Stains
- Archives nationales – site de Pierrefitte, 950 m away — A site open to the public since 2013, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, preserving archives from after the French Revolution.
- Cité-jardin de Stains, 1300 m away — Stains's garden city of low-cost housing, with remarkable heritage.