Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station

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The Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station is a railway station in the Italian city of Milan. He is after the Milano Centrale railway station is the second largest train station in the city. In it, hold addition to various regional trains also some long-distance trains, such as the Euro Star Italia, stop by the four pairs of trains into Porta Garibaldi to spare the necessary in Centrale direction changes and thus offer the fastest connection between Turin and Rome with 4 hours and 10 minutes.

Every year it is visited by approximately 25 million passengers .. It is operated by the FS- daughter Centostazioni, which manages 100 medium sized stations. He is not only on the Trenitalia also served by the Lombardy Regional Railway Company Trenord.

Location and architecture

The station is located near the eponymous Porta Garibaldi in Piazza Sigmund Freud. It consists of two levels: Upstairs is a terminal station with twelve tracks, next to a transit station, run its eight tracks immediately after the train in the tunnel Garibaldi to the track ahead of the train station Centrale; in the basement there is a hold Passante with two tracks with an island platform. The Passante is an underground diameter line of the S -Bahn Milan, which is tangent to the city center, but the Centrale train does not move.

History

The aboveground station in 1961, about 800 meters east located as a replacement of the third Porta Nuova railway station, opened. He served the traffic from the north-eastern Lombardy - Varese or as Novara - take. Thanks to a new connecting tunnel (so-called Passantino ) to the track ahead of the train station and after Centrale Greco Pirelli could also serve as a term of the routes to the north, east and south of the station after a few years.

On 21 December 1997, the underground breakpoint was ( officially: Milano Porta Garibaldi Passante ) opened since 2004 for the " Linee S" ( suburban lines ) will be used.

Between 2004 and 2006, he underwent a major refurbishment program, among other things, he was taken with a light design brighter and safer.

Traffic

Long-distance traffic

  • ES * Torino Porta Nuova - Milano Porta Garibaldi - Roma Termini (8 pairs of trains a day)
  • EC Milano Porta Garibaldi - Milano Lambrate - Verona - Brenner / Brenner - Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof - Munich Ostbahnhof - Munich Hauptbahnhof ( train pair 1 day)
  • TGV Paris -Gare de Lyon and Lyon -Saint -Exupéry TGV Torino Porta Susa Milano Porta Garibaldi (2 pairs of trains a day)
  • . Italo (Torino Porta Susa - ) Milano Porta Garibaldi - Milano Rogoredo - Bologna Centrale - Firenze SMN - Roma Tiburtina - Napoli Centrale ( - Salerno Centrale ) Operated by ntv

Regional Transport

Linee S

Other regional transport

  • R Milano Porta Garibaldi - Domodossola
  • R Milano Porta Garibaldi Varese
  • R Milano Porta Garibaldi Carnate -Bergamo
  • R Milano Porta Garibaldi Molteno Lecco

Future

As of March 2012, the station is to be operated by the consortium trains Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, which plans to offer as a competitor to the Trenitalia high speed trains between Turin's Porta Garibaldi, Rome, Naples, Venice and Salerno.

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