Les Vallées station ( French: ''Gare des Vallées'') is a French

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located on the Place de la Gare-des-Vallées in the commune of

La Garenne-Colombes La Garenne-Colombes () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from Notre Dame de Paris, France's kilometre zero. Name The commune used to be part of the neighbouring city of Colombes. At t ...

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and ...

department in the

Île-de-France The Île-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...

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. Due to the surrounding density of the stations neighbourhood, it also serves the nearby communes of

Bois-Colombes Bois-Colombes () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. International companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Aviva have their French headquart ...

and

Colombes Colombes () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. In 2019, Colombes was the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 53rd largest city in France. ...

. Established at an elevation of 39 meters, the station is located at

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(KP) 6.973 on the Paris-Saint-Lazare—Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway, between the stations of Bécon-les-Bruyères and

. Opened in 1897 by the

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, the station is now owned and operated by the

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. Since 2004, Les Vallées has been served by

Transilien Line L Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of Île-de-France region with Transilien ...

to and from

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History

First station serving Colombes

In 1844, a railway station was established at the .

Ridership

In 2021, the

estimated that 4,068,322 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

File:Accès les Vallées 2018 01.jpg, Primary station entrance. File:Accès Nord les Vallées 2018.jpg, North station entrance. File:Accès Passerelle Les Vallées 2018.jpg, Passenger overpass entrance.

Train services

Les Vallées station is served by trains running on Line L of the Transilien network. Service levels are guaranteed every 10 minutes at peak hours and every 15 minutes at off-peak hours. Trains stopping at Les Vallées serve all stations between

Paris Saint-Lazare The Gare Saint-Lazare (; ), officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris, France. It was the first railway station built in Paris, opening in 1837. It mostly serves train services to weste ...

and Nanterre-Université, except in the summer when they run non-stop between

and Bécon-les-Bruyères. File:Plaque signalétique Les Vallées 2018.jpg File:Quais Les Vallées 2018.jpg File:Vue accès principal côté quais Les Vallées 2018.jpg

Intermodality

The station is also served by lines 164 and 566 of the RATP bus network.

Railway heritage

File:GareDesValléesVue delaPlace1900.jpg, Around 1900. File:Gare des Vallées 02.jpg, In 2010. File:Bâtiment voyageurs côté quais 2018 Les Vallées.jpg, In 2018.

References

External links

* Railway stations in Hauts-de-Seine Railway stations in France opened in 1897 {{IledeFrance-railstation-stub