Survilliers-Fosses: station history
Served by: RER D.
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A station in the Val-d'Oise served by RER line D, opened with the new direct route between Saint-Denis and Creil. It stands in the commune of Fosses but its name begins with that of Survilliers: when it opened, the village of Fosses was far from the station, and moved closer as housing estates were built from the 1920s. It carried the names Survilliers - Luzarches, then Survilliers - Morte-Fontaine until 1926, before becoming Survilliers - Fosses. Its station building was deeply renovated in 2008.
Anecdote
Between 1917 and 1919, at the end of the First World War, the station served as a sorting station for soldiers coming from the front and heading to their leave destinations. With Goussainville it is the last station on line D north of Paris served by freight, for the Moimont industrial zone, and a shunting locomotive is permanently assigned there. Since 2010 the town of Fosses has held a market on the station square, on Wednesday afternoons and Thursdays.
Around Survilliers-Fosses
- Musée de la Cartoucherie, 1950 m away — Survilliers's museum devoted to the Cartoucherie française, founded in 1903, the département's oldest major industrial firm.
- Église Saint-Martin de Survilliers, 2400 m away — Survilliers's 12th-century church, a listed historic monument.