Poissy station (

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: ''Gare de Poissy'') is a rail station in

Poissy Poissy () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Pisciacais'' in French. Poissy is one of ...

, France, at the western edge of Paris.

Location

The station is at

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25.835 of

Paris–Le Havre railway The Paris–Le Havre railway is an important 228-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the northwestern port city Le Havre via Rouen. Among the first railway lines in France, the section from Paris to Rouen opened on 9 May 1843, foll ...

History

The station is inaugurated on 9 May 1843, then rebuilt in the 1870s. The building is dismantled in 1987 to make room for the current station. From 29 May 1989, the station is a terminus of one of the three western branches of RER A.

Service

Train service

Poissy is served by RER A trains running on branch A5. It is its terminus. Service frequency is three trains an hour at off-peak time, six trains an hour during peak hours and two trains an hour at evenings. Journey time to

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is around 20 minutes, and around 30 minutes to Châtelet – Les Halles. The station is also served by

Transilien line J Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of Île-de-France region with Transilien ...

. Service frequency is two trains an hour at off-peak time and at evenings, and two or three trains an hour during peak hours. Journey time to Paris Saint-Lazare is around 20 minutes.

Connections

The station is served by the following bus lines : * Courriers de Seine-et-Oise lines 1, 2, 4, 6P, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 24, 25, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 98 * Hourtoule line 4 * Rive Droite bus network line 7 * Autocars Tourneux lines 3, 22 and 26 * Transport du Val de Seine line 3 * Établissement Transdev de Conflans line 5 * Établissement Transdev d'Ecquevilly lines 14 and 311 * Établissement Transdev de Montesson Les Rabaux lines 8 and 16 * Transbeauce line 88 * Noctilien line 151

References

External links

* Réseau Express Régional stations Poissy Railway stations in Yvelines Railway stations in France opened in 1843 {{ParisRER-stub