Sainte-Colombe: station history
Served by: Transilien P.
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A halt in Seine-et-Marne on the Longueville to Esternay line, served by Transilien line P, at 78 metres above sea level, at kilometre point 90.145, between Longueville and Champbenoist - Poigny. When the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est opened the branch from Longueville to Provins, it was nothing more than a level-crossing keeper's house. Work on a passenger shelter is reported in 1900, and in 1911 the timetables list services between Provins and Longueville and between Provins and Paris.
Anecdote
In 1912 the departmental council passed a motion asking for the halt to be raised to the rank of a station able to register luggage. In 1972 the service nearly passed to the road. An old postcard from the early 1900s shows the halt housed in the level-crossing keeper's house, beside the crossing. The village is named after Saint Colombe, a virgin martyred at Sens in the 3rd century; its Romanesque church of the 11th and 12th centuries received a bell tower in 1754.