Domont station

The canton of Domont is an administrative division of the Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Domont.It consists of the following communes:

Domont (French pronunciation: [dɔmɔ̃] (listen)) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department and Île-de-France region of France. It is twinned with the Leicestershire village of Shepshed. Domont station has rail connections to Persan, Luzarches, Sarcelles and Paris.

Moisselles (French pronunciation: [mwasɛl] ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. It lies 13 km north of St Denis, and about 30 km west of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Enghien Moisselles Airfield is located in the communes of Moisselles, Attainville and Ézanville. It is used for the practice of light aviation, ultralight aviation and model aircraft.

Bouffémont – Moisselles is a railway station in Bouffémont (Val d'Oise department), France and also serves nearby Moisselles. It is on the Épinay-Villetaneuse–Le Tréport-Mers railway, which connects the Paris agglomeration with the coastal resort Le Tréport via Beauvais. The station is served by Transilien suburban trains from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Persan-Beaumont and to Luzarches. The daily number of passengers was between 500 and 2,500 in 2002. The station has 150 parking spaces. The line from Épinay-Villetaneuse to Persan-Beaumont via Montsoult was opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord Railway Company) in 1877.

The Fort de Domont was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the north of Paris in Domont, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effectiveness of artillery since the construction of the Thiers fortifications of the 1840s. It was built between 1875 and 1879 in accordance with improved principles of fortification developed for the Séré de Rivières system. Work on the fort began in 1874 and were completed in 1878. The fort covered an area of 12 hectares (30 acres) and its garrison comprised 1175 men and officers.The fort's artillery fire supported its neighbors, the Fort de Montmorency and the Fort de Montlignon. The pentagonal fort was entered through the south side, facing Paris. It featured a double caponier on the point facing outward, and two flanking caponiers on the east and west sides. The fort's main armament was a 155mm Mougin turret, added in 1884. Other artillery on the firing terrace, or cavalier, was of 120mm and 95mm caliber. The fort's artillery dominated the plains to the north, as well as the railway line to Pontoise.On 3 and 4 September 1914, the fort fired on German scout parties in the vicinity of Luzarches, the only Parisian fortification to fire on Germans during World War I. The fort was occupied by German forces during World War II, who blew up the fort's ammunition stockpile before evacuating on 26 August 1944.The fort was used by the French Post (PTT) as an ionospheric research station during the 1950s, followed by the Ministry of Agriculture. The fort was briefly used by a private company for radiography work in the 1990s before it became a training center for the fire services in 1993. It is now known as the Fort Domont Training Center ("Centre de Formation et d'entrainement, Fort de Domont"). The center provides comprehensive training, including live fire exercises

Piscop (French pronunciation: [pisko] (listen)) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Ézanville (French pronunciation: [ezɑ̃vil] (listen)) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. Écouen - Ézanville station has rail connections to Persan, Luzarches, Sarcelles and Paris.

Attainville (French pronunciation: [atɛ̃vil] ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Écouen – Ézanville is a railway station in Ézanville (Val d'Oise department), France. It is on the Épinay-Villetaneuse–Le Tréport-Mers railway, which connects the Paris agglomeration with the coastal resort Le Tréport via Beauvais. The station is served by Transilien suburban trains from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Persan-Beaumont and to Luzarches. The daily number of passengers lied between 2,500 and 7,500 in 2002. The station has 300 parking spaces. The line from Épinay-Villetaneuse to Persan-Beaumont via Montsoult was opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord Railway Company) in 1877.

The Fort de Montmorency was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the north of Paris in Montmorency, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effectiveness of artillery since the construction of the Thiers fortifications of the 1840s. It was built between 1875 and 1879 in accordance with improved principles of fortification developed for the Séré de Rivières system. The fort defended its neighbors, the Fort de Domont and the Fort de Montlignon, as well as the town of Saint-Denis. The fort saw no action in the first or second world wars, but its prominent height made it ideal for use as a telecommunications relay station. In 1947 the French Air Force occupied the site, and by 1952 communication cables were installed to link the fort to the national air defense communications system. In 1956 the Fort de Montmorency became the national headquarters for Air Force communications. The fort was designated Base aerienne 285.Base aerienne 285 was disbanded in 1968 and the fort was first placed under the jurisdiction of ''Base aerienne 104 at Le Bourget, and later under the control of the French Air Force hardened command center at Base aerienne 921 at Taverny, at the west end of the Montmorency forest. From 1992 the fort has served as a training center for security forces associated with the Taverny center, the Centre d'Initiation aux Techniques Commandos.The fort remains occupied by the military and is not open to the public.

The Montsoult–Maffliers station is a railway station in Montsoult (Val d'Oise department), France which also serves nearby Maffliers. It is on the Épinay-Villetaneuse–Le Tréport-Mers railway and is also the interchange station for the Montsoult-Maffliers – Luzarches spur line. The station is used by Transilien line H trains from Paris to Persan-Beaumont and Luzarches. In 2002, the station served between 2,500 and 7,500 passengers per day. There are 69 free parking spaces and 450 paid spaces.