Achères-Ville is a French railway station in
Achères ''
commune'', in
Yvelines
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'',
ÃŽle-de-France
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region.
Location
The station is at
kilometric point
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23.594
[Livre : Reinhard Douté, ''Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français'', édité par La Vie du Rail en août 2011, , volume 1, page 129.] of Achères-Pontoise railway. Its altitude is
30 m (98 ft).
History
The station was put in operation in May 1976 to bring rail transport closer to the town. Until then Achères was only served by
Achères–Grand-Cormier station, on
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, fol ...
, located
2 km (1.24 mi) from the city center. This situation was due to the destruction of ''Village d'Achères'' station (on Achères–Pontoise railway), which was closer, but destroyed by bombings during the night from 7–8 June 1944, and never set in service again.
Histoire de l'« ancienne gare »
, sur le site de la commune d'Achères ''mairie-acheres78.fr''.
The station
The additional word Ville prevents confusion with Achères–Grand-Cormier station.
The station has two lateral platforms, A and B, whose length is 220 meters.
Service
Train service
Achères-Ville station is served by:
* One train every 10 minutes during workweek days, 1 train every 20 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays, 1 train every 30 minutes in the evenings on RER line A, toward Cergy-le-Haut or Paris and eastern suburbs
* One train every 10 minutes during peak hours on Transilien line L
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 ÃŽle-de-France region with Transilien ...
, toward Cergy-le-Haut or Paris Saint Lazare
Connections
The station is served by the next bus routes :
* Cergy-Pontoise Confluence :
*Noctilien
Noctilien is the night bus service in Paris and its agglomeration. It is managed by the Île-de-France Mobilités (formerly the STIF), the Île-de-France regional public transit authority, and operated by RATP (with 32 lines) and Transilien S ...
: N152
Notes and references
External links
*
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Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in Yvelines
Railway stations in France opened in 1976