Pierrelaye: station history
Served by: RER C, Transilien H.
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A Val-d'Oise station on the Saint-Denis to Dieppe line, the former section of the Paris-Nord to Lille line before the opening, in 1859, of the more direct Saint-Denis to Creil section. The station building, built by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, is a two-storey, five-bay building under a gabled roof, with a service wing added later, with a cut-stone façade. It is identical to that of Montataire station. The left gable has two windows lighting the attic, the right one only one.
Anecdote
Old postcards show that the building originally had no side wing, and the façade has lost the ceramic-tile lettering that gave the station's name and the words "Chemin de fer du Nord". The line from Pierrelaye to Creil starts from this station, located in the Méry-Pierrelaye plain, near the chaussée Jules César. It is served by lines H and C, by buses 30-28 and 95.19 and, at night, by line N150.