Puteaux: station history
Served by: Transilien L and U.
Did you know?
A Hauts-de-Seine station opened on 18 July 1840 by the Société anonyme du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Cloud et Versailles, on the Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles-Rive-Droite line. First built on an embankment, then in a cutting, at 62 m altitude, it has its station building on the up-line side and the stationmaster's house on the other side. It was originally the start of a branch towards the Puteaux to Issy-Plaine line, known as the "ligne des Moulineaux". From 1933 this line ran only as a shuttle; on 8 October 1933 an electric signal box replaced the old mechanical one.
Anecdote
In May 1993, traffic on the Moulineaux line was withdrawn. From 1993 to 1997, works created tramway line 2: platforms, underpasses, a new bridge over rue de la République and a retaining wall. In 1997, a tram stop opened in the same space as the station, and the central platform is shared between trams and trains. The station kept its original name, like Suresnes-Longchamp and Les Coteaux, and its station building kept its railway function, like that of Issy-Plaine.
Around Puteaux
- Hôtel de ville de Puteaux, 50 m away — A 1934 building designed by Édouard and Jean Niermans, a typical example of the architecture of its time, with a grand staircase decorated by a fresco on the town's history.
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié, 600 m away — A church in the Bas de Puteaux, the oldest district of the town.