Juvisy train station
| Gare de Juvisy | |
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 The Juvisy station building, built in 1907, in 2011
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| Design | Wedge station |
| Platform tracks | 12, including 7 RER C and TGV , 5 RER D |
| opening | June 10, 1843 September 26, 1979 (RER C) September 24, 1995 (RER D) |
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| City / municipality | Juvisy-sur-Orge |
| Department | Essonne department |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 41 '21 " N , 2 ° 22' 55" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 37 m |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The French Juvisy train station is a separation station on the Paris – Bordeaux line from Paris Gare d'Austerlitz to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean and the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges – Montargis line (745,000). It is located in the municipality of Juvisy-sur-Orge , the facilities of the - now disused - marshalling yard are largely located in the municipality of Athis-Mons in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region .
The station is now operated by the French railway company Société nationale des chemins de fer français , as well as the Réseau ferré de France for the track systems. The station is the only one on the Paris RER network in which a direct connection between lines C and D is possible.
Location and importance
Juvisy train station is at
- Km 19.038 on the Paris-Austerlitz ↔ Bordeaux-Saint-Jean railway line .
- Kilometer point 21.129 of the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges ↔ Montargis railway line,
- Km 91.910 on the Paris ring line Ligne de la grande ceinture .
Juvisy is an important rail hub south of Paris. In terms of the number of tracks, this station, with 13 tracks (8 for RER C and TGV towards Etampes, 5 for RER D towards Corbeil-Essonne) - apart from the major Parisian stations - is the largest station on the Île-de -France.
history
In 1840, the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) built the Paris - Corbeil line via Juvisy in the southeast of Paris . The line to Orléans has branched off there since 1843. In the gusset between the two branches, a provisional wooden station building was erected in June 1843, which was replaced by a stone building in 1846/47.
As early as 1850 - Juvisy had just over 400 inhabitants at the time - 14-16 trains stopped in each direction every day. Direct trips to Paris took 27 minutes; Trains that stopped at each station took 44 minutes.
The Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM briefly as indicated) completed in 1863 the construction of a connecting segment between Juvisy and lying on the right bank station Villeneuve-Saint-Georges . According to an agreement signed in 1857, the PO then ceded the Juvisy-Corbeil-Melun route to the PLM. The Juvisy train station was operated jointly by both companies. It became increasingly important in its capacity as a link between two different railway networks.
The years after 1880, when the outer Paris ring line, the Ligne de la grande ceinture de Paris via Juvisy, was built, which made further routes through the station necessary: The freight yard was expanded at great expense, and a marshalling yard was built in the September 1884 went into operation. Between 1884 and 1888 the station building was enlarged and a second floor, with an official apartment for the station master, was added. Two pedestrian crossings were added, which cross the two track bundles and lead to the forecourt of the station building. In 1894 a locomotive depot was set up in the former freight hall, with workshops for maintenance work and minor repairs. In 1895 the Compagnie du Paris-Orléans built apartments in Athias-Mons for 350 railway workers employed in Juvisy.
As early as 1903, the Paris Gare d'Austerlitz - Juvisy line was electrified: initially with an operating voltage of 600 V, the power was supplied - as with the Paris metro - via a power rail. In June 1927, the system switched to 1500 V DC with overhead lines. In 1904, the number of tracks on the Paris-Austerlitz - Juvisy - Étampes line was doubled from two to four due to the steadily increasing number of trains.
In 1983 the Juvisy signal box 1 was replaced by a more modern relay signal box . The route area covered by it is traversed by approx. 1200 trains daily: These are mainly RER C and RER D trains, but also long-distance trains that run between Paris-Austerlitz and the center or southwest of France, and freight trains.
- Juvisy train station
The station in 1843 (after an engraving by Jean-Jacques Champin)
Railway station around 1900
The station building built in 1907
Track systems around 1914
The signal box from 1983
The station building in 2007
Use of the train station
Passenger numbers
60,000 passengers use the Juvisy train station every day. Almost a million people live up to 30 minutes away from the train station and there are more than 500,000 jobs (figures for 2012).
Connections and journey times
Up to 12 trains on the RER-D lines and 16 trains on the RER-C lines stop at Juvisy station during rush hour and per hour.
- RER C: A RER ride between Juvisy and Paris-Austerlitz and vice versa takes around 23 minutes, to Verseilles-Chantier 50 minutes.
- RER D: the journey to Paris-Gare de Lyon takes 27 minutes, to the south the trains to Malesherbes leave every hour or every 30 minutes; Trains to Melun run every hour or every 15 minutes. The trip goes via Corbeil-Essonnes and takes around 50 minutes.
The TGV Lille - Brive-la-Gaillarde has also stopped since 2007, although it is only served one journey per day. The journey to Lille takes just under two hours. The journey to Brive takes just over four hours.
Juvisy local transport hub
1200 trains run daily through the station, the three bus stations near the station are served by six RATP lines and 14 lines from other regional bus companies during the day. At night, buses from five Noctilien lines come to Juvisy train station.
In a few years, probably from 2018, line 7 of the Paris tram will also end here. A further increase in passenger numbers is therefore to be expected.
Planned improvements at the train station
Extensive renovations are planned from 2014 to make the station more customer-friendly:
- Improving access to the platforms and improving the flow of traffic across the site, including a. by building more pedestrian underpasses;
- Improving the transition options between bus stations (including the relocation of a bus station) and the railroad;
- optimal placement of the tram terminus on the station forecourt.
Marshalling yard
As part of the preparatory measures for the landing of the Allies in Normandy, the supply routes of the German troops were to be interrupted. This also included the destruction of railway systems. In this context, the Juvisy train station was bombed by the British Air Force on April 18, 1944: around 2,000 bombs with a total weight of around 1,200 tons were dropped in five waves of attack. The marshalling yard in particular was badly damaged; more than 40 km of tracks were destroyed, but the main building of the passenger station with the characteristic clock tower remained undamaged. The towns of Juvisy-sur-Orge and the neighboring Athis-Mons were also badly hit: more than 1,000 apartments were destroyed and almost 400 people lost their lives.
As a result, Juvisy was initially operated in addition to the Villeneuve-Saint-Georges marshalling yard. But the reconstruction began already during the summer of 1944 and was completed in June 1946. In addition to the renewal of the track facilities and signal boxes, the construction of flyovers to simplify traffic management, new buildings were also built for the employees. In Juvisy, the freight trains coming from the south of France were rearranged and routed in particular to the Ile-de-France and the north of France.
In the 1980s, it was decided to reorganize freight transport in the Paris area: From 1986, services were gradually relocated from the Juvisy marshalling yard to other locations. In 1994 it was completely closed.
literature
- Région Ile-de-France - Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel - Gare de Juvisy. (French, 116 pages) available as a PDF document.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Bastié: Croissance de la banlieue parisienne. Presses Universitaires de France, 1964, p. 122 (French), accessed on December 1, 2014.
- ↑ Poste d'aiguillage de la gare de Juvisy-sur-Orge ( Memento from December 6, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (French; approx. 2012) accessed on December 6, 2014.
- ^ Website of the city of Juvisy ( memento of October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (French) accessed on December 4, 2014.
- ^ Région Ile-de-France - Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel - Gare de Juvisy. (PDF, p. 2.); Retrieved December 8, 2014.