The station of the Racecourse of Enghien is a railway station of the commune of Soisy-sous-Montmorency in the department of the Val-d'Oise.

The station

It is served by the trains of the network Paris-North of the Transilien.

The number of daily travellers ranged between 2.500 and 7.500 in 2002. The station is surrounded by two free carparks of 169 and 264 places.

History

The Paris line - Lille was open the June 20th 1846 by the Compagnie of the railroads of North. This line passed then by the Vallée of Montmorency before forking towards the North-East with Saint-Ouen-the Alms and following the valley of the Oise. The more direct current route by the flat of France and Chantilly was brought into service only in 1859, not granting more since one role of secondary service road to this old route. The Ermont junction - Valmondois via Saint-Leu-the-Forest is open in 1876, initially with single track, then is doubled in 1889.

On the Northern network, the electrification arrives on the Paris line - Lille via Creil the December 9th 1958 then on the Paris lines - Brussels via Compiegne and Paris - Mitry - Crépy-in-Valois in 1963.

The modernization of the route Paris-North - Pontoise is then launched with for goal to improve the performances of this line whose frequentation is in constant rise with the increasing urbanization of the Northern suburbs and to make disappear the locomotive with vapor 141 TC tractor drawing the robust ones but Spartans cars of the Northern type at the end from 1970. In April /mai 1969, the electric traction is in service on Paris - Pontoise and Pontoise - Creil accompanied by the indication by Automatic block luminous.

On this occasion, the third center lane known as of “relation” of the section Enghien-the-Baths /Ermont is standardized (permanent Installations of misconception) in order to flux the traffic. This way had been conceived in order to ensure a specific service road of the hippodrome of Enghien, service road henceforth ensured by the regular trains of suburbs considering the strong reduction in this traffic. Then finally, it is with the turn of the antenna Ermont - Eaubonne - Valmondois to be electrified in December 1970.

Service road

The station is served at a rate of a slow train to the 1/4 of hour in off-peak hours and rush hours in source or direction of the station of North. It is necessary from 14 to 17 mn of way of Paris.

Correspondences

• Drunk

See too

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