Park of Ermont - Halt

The station of Ermont-Halt is a railway station of the French commune of Ermont (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 7.500 and 15.000 in 2003. The station has a free carpark of 200 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. Then finally, it is with the turn of the antenna Ermont - Eaubonne - Valmondois in December 1970.

Correspondences

At short distance: bus

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