Torcy () is a railway station in
Torcy, Seine-et-Marne, a suburb east of Paris.
History
Torcy opened on 19 December 1980 as part of an extension of the A4 branch from its previous eastern terminal of
Noisy-le-Grand–Mont d'Est. It served as the eastern terminus of the A4 branch for twelve years until 1 April 1992, when the RER A4 was extended to
Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy; since then, the A4 branch has yet to be extended.
Traffic
, the estimated annual attendance by the
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was 4,223,220 passengers.
Service
Torcy is on the A4 branch of the
RER A
RER A 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, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from east to west, with all t ...
and receives frequent service. As of 4 February 2008, during peak hours there are between twelve and eighteen trains per hour (intervals of five and three minutes and twenty seconds), during mid-day trains arrive every ten minutes, and early mornings and late nights trains come at fifteen-minute intervals.
[RER A timetable towards Cergy-le-Haut](_blank)
''RATP'' Retrieved 24 December 2008[RER A timetable towards Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy](_blank)
''RATP'' Retrieved 24 December 2008
The station acts as a terminus for certain trains. Trains that terminate at Torcy will display a headline beginning with O, O being the designation that a train terminates at Torcy rather than Q for Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy.
Bus connections
The station is served by several buses:
*
RATP Bus network
The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs.
Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public ...
lines: , , and ;
* ''Pep's'' Bus network lines: 13, 21, 25, 29 and 46 ;
* ''Seine-et-Marne Express'' Bus network lines: 18 and 19 ;
* ''Stigo'' Bus network line: 18 ;
* ''Transdev Lys (by Setra)'' Bus network line: 100 ;
*
Noctilien network night bus lines: and .
Gallery
File:Gare torcy.jpg, North side entrance
(towards ''Bay 1'' shopping centre)
File:RER A - Gare Torcy 9.JPG, Sign indicating the name of the station
(with overlooking the neighbourhood)
File:RER_A_-_Gare_Torcy_4.JPG, A train (MI2N
The MI 2N (French: ''Matériel d'Interconnexion à 2 Niveaux'', English: ''two-level interconnection rolling stock'') is a family of double-deck, dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainsets that are operated on the Réseau Express Régional ( ...
) arriving at the station
(towards Paris)
File:RER_A_-_Gare_Torcy_11.JPG, General view to the west (towards Paris)
from the east side of the station
File:RER_A_-_Gare_Torcy_20.JPG, General view of the platforms to the east
(towards Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy)
File:Alteo_Torcy.JPG, General view to the east (with a MI2N
The MI 2N (French: ''Matériel d'Interconnexion à 2 Niveaux'', English: ''two-level interconnection rolling stock'') is a family of double-deck, dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainsets that are operated on the Réseau Express Régional ( ...
train
that has just left the station)
References
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Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in France opened in 1980
Railway stations in Seine-et-Marne