Viroflay-Rive-Droite: station history
Served by: Transilien L.
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A station in the Yvelines opened by the Société anonyme du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Cloud et Versailles, for which 1841 was the first year of full operation, and now belonging to the SNCF. It has kept essentially its original appearance, and its passenger building has been in service since the opening. It stands on a hillside, north of the town centre, at 114 metres above sea level, at kilometre point 20.351. The railway project had at first aroused the mistrust, even hostility, of the municipal council, notably because of the supposed end of road haulage and the expropriations.
Anecdote
The overbridge of rue des Marais, built in 1839, was a bridge with a stone-surfaced roadway covered with wood; strengthened in 1908 and rebuilt in the 1930s, it was replaced in 1976 during the overhead-line electrification. A reinforced-concrete footbridge was erected around 1925. The name of rue des Marais refers to former market gardeners: there never was a marsh at this spot. The paying park-and-ride of 60 spaces is named "Coste et Bellonte".
Around Viroflay-Rive-Droite
- Église Saint-Eustache, 750 m away — A former royal chapel built between 1519 and 1543, which received ornaments from Louis XIV and his successors.
- Pavillon Saint-Vigor, 750 m away — A pavilion protected as a historic monument, home to Louis XV's foster brother.
- Église Notre-Dame-du-Chêne, 350 m away — A 1960s church with a roof shaped like an upturned boat hull.