Gare de Montérolier-Buchy

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Gare de Montérolier-Buchy

View of the station from the tracks
Station statistics
Address Montérolier
Coordinates 49°36′11″N 1°20′4″E / 49.60306°N 1.33444°E / 49.60306; 1.33444Coordinates: 49°36′11″N 1°20′4″E / 49.60306°N 1.33444°E / 49.60306; 1.33444
Line(s) Amiens–Rouen railway
Platforms 2
Tracks 2 + sidings
Other information
Owned by RFF/SNCF
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Amiens
 TER Picardie 2

The Gare de Montérolier-Buchy (Montérolier-Buchy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Montérolier in the Seine-Maritime department, France and near Buchy. The station is a stop on the Amiens–Rouen railway, and is the terminus a line to Motteville. It was also the terminus of the branch line to Saint-Saëns, which has been closed and removed.

The station

Montérolier-Buchy is now an unmanned station. It has two platforms on either side of two passenger tracks, between which there is a metal footbridge (not handicap-accessible). Numerous sidings lie to the south of the station.

The station is served by TER Haute-Normandie and TER Picardie trains from Rouen to Amiens and Lille. In summer it is also served by TER Haute-Normandie trains linking Rouen to Le Tréport-Mers.

Connections

The station building still exists but is not open to the public
The station at the beginning of the 20th century

Montérolier-Buchy is the terminus for two branch lines:

  • To Saint-Saëns: a 10.2 km shuttle local line closed in 1953 and since dismantled.
  • To Motteville (freight only)

History

The station was heavily bombed during the Second World War, because it controlled a junction and the Amiens - Rouen line was of great importance to the German Army.

A plaque placed on the station forecourt commemorates the existence there from April to June 1945 of a reception station for deportees, prisoners and returning French obligatory workers being repatriated from Nazi Germany.

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