Plaisir-Grignon: station history
Served by: Transilien N.
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A station in the Yvelines opened on 15 June 1864 with the opening of the track between Saint-Cyr and Dreux, on the Saint-Cyr to Surdon line. It is a junction station, the origin of the Plaisir - Grignon to Épône - Mézières line, and is served by Transilien line N. It stands at 106 m altitude, at kilometre point 32.218, and has a side platform (track 1, 229 m usable) and a central platform (tracks 2 and C, 257 m usable), linked by an underpass. A car and bicycle car park is available.
Anecdote
At Plaisir, the name is recorded as Placidio (7th century), Placicium (8th century), then Plesir (1470) and Plaisir (17th century). In 1537, Francis I gave the fief to his mistress Anne de Pisseleu. The Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre was built between 1260 and 1263, and the 17th-century château de Plaisir, a listed historic monument since 1961, houses the conservatoire. In 1971, Gaston Lenôtre created the école Lenôtre there, the first French school of gastronomy.
Around Plaisir-Grignon
- Église Saint-Martin de Thiverval-Grignon, 4200 m away — The village church, protected as a historic monument.
- Château de Plaisir, 500 m away — A 17th-century château and its park, protected as a historic monument.