Noyon station is served by regional trains to Creil, Saint-Quentin, Compiègne and Paris.

[5] Other explanations are that Medardus was born near the town, at Salency, or that the place is nearer to Soissons, which was one of the royal capitals of the Merovingians.)

[6] The cathedral at Noyon was where Charlemagne was crowned as co-King of the Franks in 768,[7] as was the first Capetian king, Hugh Capet in 987.

In the twelfth century, the diocese of Noyon was raised to an ecclesiastical duchy in the peerage of France.

[13] Near the end of the sixteenth century the town fell under Habsburg control, but Henry IV of France recaptured it.