Val d'Europe station
Val d'Europe is a railway station on the RER A line in Val d'Europe district of Marne-la-Vallée. The station's full name is Serris – Montévrain – Val d'Europe, a recognition that the station also serves the nearby communes of Serris and Montévrain.
RER station | |||||||||||
Entrance of the station. | |||||||||||
Location | France | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 48.8554°N 2.7734°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | RATP Group | ||||||||||
Operated by | RATP Group | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Station code | 87730069 | ||||||||||
Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 14 April 2001 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2016 | 4,094,800 | ||||||||||
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The town of Val d'Europe was planned and developed in conjunction with The Walt Disney Company, who wished to create a town near the Disneyland Paris resort. The station serves the neighborhoods and the large shopping mall in Val d'Europe.
The station was built as an infill station on the already operating RER line and opened on 14 April 2001.
The station has three accesses :
- the first one towards Serris and Chessy, the shopping mall and the bus station ;
- the second one towards Montévrain ;
- and the third one towards the hospital of Jossigny.
History
In 1992, RER line A was extended to Chessy to serve Disneyland Paris. Val d'Europe station, whose full name is Serris – Montévrain – Val d'Europe, was created on this line to serve the Val d'Europe department store and its neighborhoods. It opened on 14 April 2001.[1][2]
Services
RER A
The station is served by a train every 10 minutes to Paris and to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy. From 10 pm, frequency drops to 1 train every 30 minutes. Service starts at 5:16 am to Paris, at 5:53 am to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy and stops at 0:23 am to Paris and at 1:13 to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy.[3]
Bus connections
The station is served by several buses in a large bus station:
- Pep's Bus network lines: 02, 22, 32, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 46 ;[4]
- Seine-et-Marne Express Bus network lines: 16 and 18 ;[4]
- Marne et Morin (Grand Morin) Bus network lines: 06, 19, 58, 60 and 69-Express ;[4]
- Disneyland Shuttles network lines: MS Selected and HCU ;[4]
- Noctilien network night bus line: N130 (between Paris (Gare de Lyon) and Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy - Disneyland).[4][5]
References
- Vincent Lepreux (1 February 2001). Written at Paris. "La gare RER va enfin ouvrir" [The RER station will finally open]. Le Parisien (in French). Ed. Seine-et-Marne: LVMH. ISSN 0767-3558. OCLC 436625044. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
Cette fois-ci, c'est promis, juré. La gare RER de Serris-Montévrain ouvrira bien « dans les premiers jours d'avril » [This time, it's promised, sworn. The RER station of Serris-Montévrain will open well "in the first days of April"]
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Written at Paris. "La gare de Serris inaugurée aujourd'hui !" [The Serris station inaugurated today!]. Le Parisien (in French). Ed. Seine-et-Marne: LVMH. 8 June 2001. ISSN 0767-3558. OCLC 436625044. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
Une nouvelle station sera inaugurée ce matin (…) [mais] la gare est ouverte au public depuis le 14 avril. [A new station will be inaugurated this morning (...) [but] the station has been open to the public since 14 April.]
- "Horaires des premiers et derniers trains" [Timetables of the first and last trains.] (PDF). Parisbytrain.com (Tables showing the timetables of the first and last trains at each metro and RER station.) (in French). RATP Group. 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- "Plan du réseau de bus à Marne-la-Vallée (Secteur n°45)" [Map of the bus networks in Marne-la-Vallée (Sector n° 45).] (PDF). Transdev-idf.com (Color map showing the names of bus stops and main streets.) (in French). Île-de-France Mobilités. January 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- "Plan du réseau Noctilien (2017) - (Secteur : Paris & Sud-Est)" [Map of the night bus (Noctilien) network (2017) - (Sector: Paris and its south-eastern suburbs).] (PDF). Ratp.fr (Color map showing the names of the bus stops and the cities served.) (in French). RATP Group. April 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2020.