Le Bourget
Le Bourget station house
General information
LocationPlace des Déportés
Le Bourget
France
Coordinates 48°55′51″N 2°25′34″E / 48.93083°N 2.42611°E / 48.93083; 2.42611
Operated bySNCF
Construction
AccessibleYes, by prior reservation[1]
Other information
Station code87271395
Fare zone3
History
Opened1863
Passengers
201917,945,579[2]
Services
Preceding station RER RER Following station
Drancy
towards Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV or Mitry–Claye
 RER B La Courneuve – Aubervilliers
towards Robinson or Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Preceding station Tramways in Île-de-France Tram Following station
Dugny–La Courneuve
towards Épinay-sur-Seine
 T11 Terminus

Le Bourget station is a station on the line B of the Réseau Express Régional, a hybrid suburban commuter and rapid transit line. The station is also served by Paris Tramway Line 11. The station will be where the Paris Metro Line 16 and Paris Metro Line 17 divide, with Line 16 heading to Noisy-Champs and Line 17 going to Le Mesnil-Amelot. It is named after the town of Le Bourget where the station is located, a northern suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France.[3]

History

Le Bourget station was the primary point of deportation for French Jews during the Holocaust. Between 27 March 1942 and 23 June 1943, 42 trains carrying 40,450 Jews left Le Bourget for Auschwitz concentration camp and other extermination camps in Poland. Most had been imprisoned in the nearby Drancy internment camp.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Plan pour les voyageurs en fauteuil roulant" [Map for travelers in wheelchairs] (PDF). Île-de-France Mobilités (in French and British English). 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Fréquentation en gares". ressources.data.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Le Bourget station at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)
  4. ↑ Commemorative plaque on the station forecourt

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