Villeneuve-Saint-Georges: station history
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
A station in the Val-de-Marne of the Paris-Lyon company, on the Paris-Lyon to Marseille-Saint-Charles line, at kilometre point 14.386, at 36 metres above sea level. It is a junction station, the origin of the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to Montargis line, and the last before RER line D splits between the branches to Melun via Évry-Corbeil and via Combs-la-Ville. The line was made four-track between Paris-Lyon and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in 1887. It has eight tracks and four platforms.
Anecdote
The first station building, the work of François-Alexis Cendrier, was a standard first-class building of two storeys and four bays, covered with a zinc roof. It was replaced in 1905 by a second one, of seven bays, decorated with bricks, stones and multicoloured ceramic tiles, itself demolished between the 1960s and 1970s in favour of a more modest, functional structure. A photograph shows the tracks after the Seine flood of 1910; an extension of the future metro line 18 is proposed as far as here.
Around Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
- Église Saint-Georges, 600 m away — A listed historic church with a remarkable bell tower, in the heart of the town.
- Le pont de Villeneuve, 450 m away — A bridge crossing the railway tracks, with the hillside in the background.