Poissy station ( French: ''Gare de Poissy'') is a rail station in

Poissy Poissy () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Inhabitan ...

, France, at the western edge of Paris.

Location

The station is at

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25.835 of

Paris–Le Havre railway The Paris–Le Havre railway is an important 228-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the northwestern port city Le Havre via Rouen. Among the first railway lines in France, the section from Paris to Rouen opened on 9 May 1843, fol ...

History

The station was inaugurated on 9 May 1843, then rebuilt in the 1870s. The building was dismantled in 1987 to make room for the current station. From 29 May 1989, the station has been a terminus of one of the three western branches of

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 Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List o ...

Service

Train service

Poissy is served by

trains running on branch A5. It is its terminus. Service frequency is three trains an hour at off-peak time, six trains an hour during peak hours and two trains an hour at evenings. Journey time to

La Défense La Défense () is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France region's Departments of France, department of Hauts-de-Seine in the Communes of France, communes of Courbe ...

is around 20 minutes, and around 30 minutes to Châtelet–Les Halles. The station is also served by

Transilien line J 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 ...

. Service frequency is two trains an hour at off-peak time and at evenings, and two or three trains an hour during peak hours. Journey time to Paris Saint-Lazare is around 20 minutes.

Connections

The station is served by the following bus lines : * Courriers de Seine-et-Oise lines 1, 2, 4, 6P, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 24, 25, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 98 * Hourtoule line 4 * Rive Droite bus network line 7 * Autocars Tourneux lines 3, 22 and 26 * Transport du Val de Seine line 3 * Établissement Transdev de Conflans line 5 * Établissement Transdev d'Ecquevilly lines 14 and 311 * Établissement Transdev de Montesson Les Rabaux lines 8 and 16 * Transbeauce line 88 *

Noctilien Noctilien is the night bus service in Paris and its agglomeration. It is managed by the Île-de-France Mobilités (formerly the STIF), the Île-de-France regional public transit authority, and operated by RATP (with 32 lines) and Transilien S ...

line 151

References

External links

* * Réseau Express Régional stations Poissy Railway stations in Yvelines Railway stations in France opened in 1843 {{ParisRER-stub