The railway line

Between 1843 and 1848, the Paris – Rouen – Dieppe and Clères – Motteville railway lines to Havre and Amiens were created by the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest belonging to the general interest network built by English companies. The Rouen – Dieppe section was built in 1848, but the Clères station was "forgotten" despite the commitments of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer. It was created after several requests and a petition to Emperor Napoleon III on February 5, 1853. The elected officials of Grugny were also calling for it. The station was finally built on a piece of land donated by the Count of Béarn and opened in 1855. The Motteville – Saint-Valéry-en-Caux section was opened in 1848.

In 1876, a branch to Motteville, still visible today, and another to Buchy allowed the people of Cléres and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages to reach Havre and Amiens. The steam engines of the Havre Amiens trains had to be unhitched from the convoy in Clères station to change direction but from 1917, and thanks to the Croatian prisoners a bar was built between La Houssaye-Béranger and Etaimpuis: thus the Havre Amiens trains linked these 2 cities without passing through Clères. Passenger service disappeared in 1938 and freight transport in the 60s.