Villiers-le-Bel-Gonesse-Arnouville: station history
Served by: RER D.
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A station in the Val-d'Oise opened in 1859 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, served by RER line D and located 14.8 kilometres from Paris-Nord. It stands in the territory of the commune of Arnouville, close to Villiers-le-Bel and Gonesse, at 69 metres above sea level, at kilometre point 14.759 of the Paris-Nord to Lille line, between Garges - Sarcelles and Goussainville. The Saint-Denis to Creil line via Survilliers - Fosses was opened in 1859 after six years of study, then doubled in 1907.
Anecdote
From 1878 to 1949 the Villiers-le-Bel tramway linked the station to the village of Villiers-le-Bel. A fifth track was laid in the early 1990s, during the construction of the LGV Nord, between Pierrefitte and the new Gonesse junction. The station building is described as already old, and the station has ticket machines, facilities for people with reduced mobility and a bicycle park. The Club ferroviaire de Villiers-le-Bel has built a model of it.
Around Villiers-le-Bel-Gonesse-Arnouville
- Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Gonesse, 4700 m away — Gonesse's large listed church, with an ambulatory choir and carved capitals.