Versailles Chantiers station () is the principal

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

serving the city of

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

, a wealthy suburb located west of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, France. The station is located at the junction of the

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and the

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. The "Chantiers" in the station name comes from its location on the Rue des Chantiers. The station is operated by

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, the French national railway. It is served by

TGV inOui TGV inOui is the brand name of premium TGV train services operated by SNCF since 27 May 2017 on certain high speed rail services. SNCF is in the process of replacing 'classic' TGV services with the premium inOui and low-cost Ouigo brands in p ...

and the

Ouigo Ouigo () is a low-cost service range of both conventional and high-speed trains run by SNCF in France, and also to Belgium in cooperation with National Railway Company of Belgium, NMBS/SNCB. The literal translation of ''Ouigo'' from French to En ...

Train Classique service, along with several regional train networks, including the

RER C RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south. Briefly, betwe ...

, Transilien lines N, U, and V, along with the

TER Centre-Val de Loire TER Centre-Val de Loire (operated under the brand Rémi since 2019 and TER Centre prior to 2015) is the regional rail network serving Centre-Val de Loire ''région'' of France. Network The rail and bus network as of April 2022:

and

TER Normandie Nomad Train, before 2020 known as TER Normandie is the network of the regional train services organised by the region of Normandy (northwestern France) and operated by the French national railway company SNCF. The brand name refers to the more ge ...

networks. The station is one of several in Versailles but is not as close to the

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

as the Versailles Château Rive Gauche station.

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* * Réseau Express Régional stations Railway stations in Yvelines Transport in Versailles Railway stations in France opened in 1849 Gare de Versailles-Chantiers {{IledeFrance-railstation-stub

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