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Gare de Breteuil-Embranchement

Gare de Breteuil-Embranchement
Breteuil Embranchement - C.jpg
Location Breteuil-Embranchement, Bacouël
Coordinates 49°37′35″N 2°23′4″E / 49.62639°N 2.38444°E / 49.62639; 2.38444Coordinates: 49°37′35″N 2°23′4″E / 49.62639°N 2.38444°E / 49.62639; 2.38444
Owned by RFF/SNCF
Line(s) Paris–Lille railway
Platforms 3
Tracks 3
History
Opened 1846
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Amiens
TER Picardie 22
toward Paris-Nord

The Gare de Breteuil-Embranchement (Breteuil branch station) 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.

The station is served by TER Picardie trains.

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 the Gare de Breteuil-Ville, to which the branch line formerly went


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