Trappes: station history
Served by: Transilien N and U.
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A station in the Yvelines on the Versailles-Chantiers to Chartres line, whose section opened on 12 July 1849. It was served by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'État, the Compagnie de l'Ouest, then the French State, before the SNCF. Its original station building is partly built of millstone grit ("pierre meulière") and the station has kept its original appearance. It has two side platforms and a central platform serving four tracks, with an underpass equipped with lifts.
Anecdote
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the station attracted boaters and walkers from Paris to the étang de Trappes, the former name of the étang de Saint-Quentin. In 1911, as the Versailles-Matelots marshalling yard was saturated, a depot and a new marshalling yard were built at Trappes, which became a railway workers' town. The workers' estate of Les Dents de Scie was built near the station in 1931. An SNCF technicentre for rolling-stock maintenance has been installed there since 2005.
Around Trappes
- Église Saint-Georges de Trappes, 130 m away — A medieval church in Trappes, whose origins go back to the 12th century according to one tourist source.