Bourg-la-Reine station

Bourg-la-Reine station (French: Gare de Bourg-la-Reine) is a railway station on the Sceaux line, located in the town of Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Bourg-la-Reine
Bourg-la-Reine station platform
General information
Location	Boulevard Maréchal Loffre Bourg-la-Reine France
Coordinates	48°46′49″N 2°18′45″E
Operated by	RATP Group
Line(s)	Ligne de Sceaux
Platforms	2 side platforms 1 island platform
Tracks	5
Connections	RATP Bus:  172   192   197   388   390   394  Le Paladin: 6, 7, 17 Noctilien: N14 N21
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes, by request to staff
Other information
Station code	87758698
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	29 July 1854 (1854-07-29)
Passengers
2019	4,446,499
Services
Preceding station RER Following station Bagneux towards Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV or Mitry–Claye RER B Sceaux towards Robinson Parc de Sceaux towards Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

Railway situation

The station is located at "Point Kilometrique"(PK) 12.9 (PK 0.0 being in Gare du Nord, end of the RATP part), at the junction of the branches of line B of the RER towards Robinson and towards Saint-Rémy-lès -Chevreuse. The station itself is made up of five tracks, four of which are contiguous to a platform:

• track 1 for trains going south, Massy – Palaiseau or Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse;
• track 2 for trains going north towards Paris and coming from Massy – Palaiseau or Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse;
• track 1a for trains going southwest towards Robinson;
• track 2a for trains going north towards Paris and coming from Robinson;
• track 4, a small siding located to the west of track 2a, along the platform but not contiguous, often used to park track surveillance trains.

At the north of the station, four sidings allow the parking of trains. Two (tracks 3 and 5) are quite long for 2 EMU Mi79/84 each; two others (tracks 7 and 9), shorter and integrated into a concrete slab, pass under a porch and are used to park construction trains. The station's rights-of-way include the flying junction, built in the 1930s, as well as the A and B sidings (sometimes used as sidings or for a U-turn) and the 3T siding, all located just north of the flying junction (about 300 meters from the end of the quays to the north).

History

This station has the particularity of constituting a Y, since it is common to the Robinson and Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse branches, which separate shortly before, on the Paris side. During the renovation of the line by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP) in the 1930s, a flying junction was created to avoid conflicts between trains traveling in the opposite direction at the junction. .

In the early 2000s, this station was the subject of major works consisting of creating a new access leading directly to the connecting corridor, the installation of three elevators (one for each platform) and the renovation of the historic passenger building. . This station is now fully accessible to people with reduced mobility.

After the separation the central platform in two, there is an electrical substation and, remembering the Sceaux line before the RER, a metro logo carved out of hedges. In addition, another particularity of this station, the service plans were the first of the new generation to be installed on the RER A/B network.

In 2020 a new forecourt and new bus station are built

In 2016, according to RATP estimates, annual ridership was 4,462,976 travelers

Bus connections

The station is served by:

• RATP Bus:  172   192   197   388   390   394 
• Le Paladin: 6, 7, 17
• Noctilien: N14 N21

Gallery

• 
  South of the station under snow
• 
  The station probably in 1907
• 
  Platform 2 to the North in early morning
• 
  the "new entrance" built in 2000
• 
  Sight of vue of the station with the old schema of the street
• 
  From Platform 1Bis to the North

See also

• List of stations of the Paris RER

External links

Media related to Gare de Bourg-la-Reine at Wikimedia Commons