Val de Fontenay: station history
Served by: RER A and E.
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A two-level station in Fontenay-sous-Bois, opened in the 1970s on the edge of a ZUP (priority urbanisation zone): the underground RATP station, served by RER A, opened when RER A was inaugurated as far as Noisy-le-Grand, and the elevated SNCF station above it, served by RER E, the day after. It takes the name of a district of Fontenay-sous-Bois. The RER E platforms can be reached only through those of RER A, and the RER E tracks are framed by the A86 motorway.
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The station has five entrances. It is served by all trains of the branch, which is not the case for the other stations of the branch. A Corten steel sculpture, "Liberté", by the Italian artist Francesco Marino Di Teana, is visible from the station. Some neighbouring Société générale buildings were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer. In the long term the station is to become a multimodal hub with the extensions of metro lines 1 and 15, tram T1 and the Trans-Val-de-Marne.
Around Val de Fontenay
- Pavillon Baltard (Nogent-sur-Marne), 2500 m away — The last surviving pavilion of Paris's Les Halles designed by Victor Baltard, rebuilt in Nogent in 1976 and listed as a historic monument in 1982.
- Église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1050 m away — Built under Francis I on the site of a chapel recorded as early as 982; listed as a historic monument.
- Fort de Nogent, 1300 m away — A 19th-century fort in Paris's defensive ring, to which the mobile guards were sent during the Battle of Champigny in 1870.