Les Échets station ( French: ''Gare des Échets'') is a French

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

located in the Les Échets neighbourhood of the

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of Miribel,

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...

department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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. It is located at

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(KP) 20.727 on the Lyon–Bourg-en-Bresse railway, between Sathonay-Rillieux and

Mionnay station Mionnay station ( French: ''Gare de Mionnay'') is a French railway station located in the commune of Mionnay, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is located at kilometric point (KP) 23.441 on the Lyon–Bourg-en-Bresse railway ...

s. Miribel station, also located in the commune along the

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is located on the Lyon—Geneva railway. The station was put into service in 1866 by the Compagnie de la Dombes. As of 2020, the station is owned and operated by the SNCF and served by

TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the regional rail network serving the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central and eastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER A ...

trains.

History

The "''station des Échets''" was put into service by the Compagnie de la Dombes, on 1 September 1866, along with the opening of railway between

Sathonay Sathonay is a former commune of the Ain department in France. It was divided into two new communes in 1908: Sathonay-Camp and Sathonay-Village. Since 1968, these communes are not part of Ain any longer, but are part of the Rhône The Rhône ...

and

Bourg-en-Bresse Bourg-en-Bresse (; frp, Bôrg) is the prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Located northeast of Lyon, it is the capital of the ancient province of Bresse ( frp, Brêsse, links=no). In 2018, ...

. For summer service, beginning 10 May 1869, the station was served by four daily (in each direction) "''omnibus mixtes''" (passengers and freight) services between

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzer ...

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...

/ Strasbourg and Lyon-Croix-Rousse. On the

and Lyon-Croix-Rousse service, an addition train was added on Mondays and Wednesdays. In 1872, the station became part of the Compagnie des Dombes et des chemins de fer du Sud-Est's (DSE) network which substituted its original operator. File:Les Échets - Miribel - CP (20).jpg, Passenger building. File:Les Échets - Miribel - CP (3).jpg, Train platforms. File:Les Échets - Miribel - CP (18).jpg, Delivery of milk. On 10 September 1921, the station was the location of the Les Échets train accident. An express train between Strasbourg and Lyon derailed while entering the station resulting in the derailing of multiple carriages and a collision with the ''halle à marchandises''. The accident resulted in 39 deaths and more than 60 injuries. A decree passed on 14 April 1922, awarded the '' médaille d’honneur des chemins de fer'' to Jean-Claude-Clément Coulon, the station boss. The decoration was awarded with in relation to train accident of 10 September 1921. The original passenger building, identical to those constructed at

Villars-les-Dombes Villars-les-Dombes (, literally ''Villars near Dombes'') is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Its people are known as ''Villardois''. Geography The town is located within Ain, half-way between Lyon (33 km) and Bourg-en-B ...

and

Saint-André-de-Corcy station Saint-André-de-Corcy () is a commune in the Ain ''département'' in eastern France. Population Sites and monuments The commune has several châteaux and ''poypes'' (fortified mounds, or mottes). The motte castrale Poype de la Roussière has ...

s by the Compagne de la Dombes has since been demolished, resulting in the station becoming a simple halt. In February 2012, the Côtière liberté réseau intercommunal (Colibri) bus network of the Communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau began serving a stop near the station. In 2019, the SNCF estimated that 160,821 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

Classified as a PANG (''point d'accès non géré''), the station is unstaffed and equipped with automatic ticket dispensers.

Train services

As of 2020, the station is served by the following services: * Regional services (

32)

...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

Intermodality

In addition to a parking lot for passengers, the station is equipped with secure bicycle storage facilities. Bus lines 1 and 3 of the Côtière liberté réseau intercommunal (Colibri), serve the nearby ''gare des Échets'' stop.

References

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