Cergy-le-Haut () is a railway station in
Cergy
Cergy () is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, to the northwest of Paris. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s, of which it is the central and most populated commun ...
, a western Paris suburb, that serves trains on the
RER A
RER A is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving the city and suburbs of Paris
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line of the
Réseau Express Régional
The (; ), commonly abbreviated RER (), is a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs. It acts as a combined city-center underground rail system and suburbs-to-city-center commuter rail, similar to the Elizabe ...
network and
Line L line of the
Transilien
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Transilien Line H, H, Transilie ...
network.
The station was built in 1994 and is located underground in a shallow
cut and cover
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tunnel. When first built, the station was located in an area of open fields, now built upon and is part of the network of stations serving the
ville nouvelle
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of
Cergy-Pontoise
Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population ...
. It was part of a large project to develop the area and smart Parisian style buildings have been built next to the station around a plaza situated above the tracks. Cergy-le-Haut is not yet fully developed so fields are next to the station and next to seven-storey high apartment buildings.
During rush hours it is served by RER A trains every ten minutes and by Transilien Line L every ten minutes.
See also
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List of stations of the Paris RER
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References
External links
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Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in France opened in 1994
Railway stations in Val-d'Oise
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