Gare_de_Breteuil-Embranchement

Breteuil-Embranchement station

Breteuil-Embranchement station

Railway station in Bacouël, Oise, France

Breteuil-Embranchement is a railway station on the Paris-Nord - Lille line located in the commune of Bacouël in the Oise department, France. It is surrounded by a hamlet also named Breteuil-Embranchement.

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The station is served by TER Hauts-de-France trains.[1]

An underground walkway allows passengers to cross the tracks, but makes the station inaccessible to the handicapped. The station has an unused freight storage building and sidings.

As the station name indicates, there was formerly a short branch line from here to Breteuil-sur-Noye, which had been passed by when the line from Paris Nord to Lille was constructed.

  • Interior of the small reinforced concrete freight building
  • Looking from the station towards Longueau. The junction where the line to Breteuil branched off is visible in the distance.
  • Early 20th-century view of Breteuil-Ville station, to which the branch line formerly went

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Plan des lignes TER Hauts-de-France" (PDF). www.ter.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
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