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[ Milly-sur-Therain ( Oise ) ]

The station at Milly-sur-Therain is located 14 km west of Beauvais and 92 km from Paris on the line to Abancourt and Le Tréport.  It was opened in 1875 by the Compagnie du Nord.

 

One hundred and thirty years later the visitor can marvel at the survival, intact, of this historical railway site, with its dark red brick two storey structure, mosaic tiled booking hall, tree-lined platforms and its two semaphore signals still operated manually from the lever frame by the main building.

This scene is rare, not to say unique in its authenticity and should be visited immediately before the winds of change and modernisation pass by.

On to the platform for the 09.14 to Le Tréport, this Saturday morning.

09.14.  Arrival of the Picardy region Saturdays only TER from Beauvais to Le Tréport

Departure for Le Tréport under the watchful eye of the station agent.

At the northern end of the station, past the semaphore and over the level crossing, the line becomes single all the way to Le Tréport, with two loops, at Grandvilliers and at Blangy-sur-Bresle, both protected by Lartigue semaphore signals.

A country railway in the Oise, incomparable scene unchanged for more than a century.

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All rights reserved /  text, J.G.Skinner  / colour photos J.G.Skinner, B&W photos, M.Costes / 2005

April 27th 1985.  Arrival of the RGP special from Le Tréport.  Two photos below of the unit in the station and departure past the semaphore.

September 2006.  Pacific 231 K 8 passes Milly with a charter train from Le Tréport to Paris Gare du Nord.  Two monuments together !  Photo by D Michel Costes

Page reviewed January 2008