Milano Greco Pirelli railway station

Chiasso and Milan

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The Milano Greco Pirelli railway station (Italian: Stazione di Milano Greco Pirelli ) is a railway station in the Italian city of Milan, located on the railway line Milano - Chiasso. It is located in the property of RFI and is mainly served by trains of Trenord, a joint venture between Trenitalia and LeNord. It is located at Piazzale Egeo Greco in the district in the north of Milan. At kilometers of track measured it lies 3.4 km north from Milano Centrale and 4 km north from Milano Porta Garibaldi, the two end points of the railway line from Chiasso. He is also connected by a well used passenger cross-link with the Milan ring road ( Linea di Cintura ).

History

The station was opened as a service station on 21 March 1914, when the link went into service to Milano Lambrate. The final status of a passenger station he received on 23 September of the same year. At that time, Greco still formed a separate municipality ( Greco Milanese), it was incorporated in 1923 to Milan. The station was at the opening of the name Greco, the addition of Pirelli came later. This was due to the Pirelli - Bicocca parent plant nearby. Meanwhile Pirelli is here only with a research presence, the disused factories were subjected to urbanization under the direction of architect Vittorio Gregotti. Thus, among other things, the Università degli Studi di Milano was founded in 1998 - Bicocca and the Teatro degli Arcimboldi - in the latter worked with Mario Botta - settled.

Since 1966 Greco Pirelli is connected to the Passantino tunnel directly to the Porta Garibaldi Station.

Operation

Railway

The station is serviced exclusively by commuter trains to Milan train, however, was due to its passenger numbers and its importance Gold status for FS stations.

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The station is also breakpoint regional trains to Lecco ( about Molteno, future S7) and Bergamo ( about Carnate ) and starting point of the regional trains to Brescia, Piacenza and Stradella.

Suburban trains operate in half-hourly, hourly regional trains in regular intervals.

Overall, the station has four platforms with seven tracks traffic.

Despite the rail connection to Milano Centrale there is no direct train from Greco Pirelli. In addition, the station will pass the long-distance trains to Basel SBB and Zurich HB which operate on the Gotthard railway, as well as the regional express trains to Tirano.

City traffic

In Greco Pirelli transitions exist for 7 tram and bus lines 52, 81, 86, 87 and 728 bus lines connect the Greco Pirelli, among others, the Centrale railway station and with several metro stations within the city boundaries. A direct metro connection has Greco Pirelli not, the next station is Precotto the line M1, which ( Via Bernardo Rucellai ) is connected to the Greco Pirelli railway station with a direct road train, and is a kilometer away.