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the history of Stations

The second station in 1842

The station of 1842

It will be necessary to wait on April 15, 1842 so that is inaugurated, with great pomp, the real station, near the stopping place, preserved to serve of store of goods.

Two symmetric wings with five openings adjoined the main entrance.

In front of the station, a semicircular place, lined with a low wall, gave to the set a pleasant image, with some resemblance, would say contemporaries, with a shooting lodge or a manor house of the XVIIIth century. The builder was Ignace WETTERLE of it.

André Waltz's drawing

André WALTZ's drawing, librarian, we gives a precise idea of the architecture of the station, consisted of a central part, with three entries, surmounted of a second floor, put on of a pinnacle with a clock.

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