Milano Lambrate railway station

Milano Lambrate
General information
Location	Piazza Enrico Bottini 10 20133 Milano MI Milan, Milan, Lombardy Italy
Coordinates	45°29′06″N 09°14′13″E
Operated by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni
Line(s)	Milan belt railway Milano–Genova Milano–Venezia Milano–Bologna
Platforms	12
Train operators	Trenitalia Trenord
Connections	Line M2 ATM trams ATM trolleybuses, ATM urban buses, and intercity buses
History
Opened	1931 (1931)
Electrified	1938 (1938)
Location

Milano Lambrate railway station (Italian: Stazione di Milano Lambrate) is one of the main stations serving the city and comune of Milan, capital of the region of Lombardy, northern Italy.

Opened in 1931, the station is the third largest in Milan in terms of numbers of tracks, after Milano Centrale and Milano Porta Garibaldi. It forms part of the Milan belt railway, and also the railways linking Milan with Genoa, Venice, Bologna and Mantua.

The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. Train services are mainly operated by Trenord.

Underneath the station, and connected with it, is a Milan Metro station forming part of Line M2.

Location

Milano Lambrate railway station is situated at Piazza Enrico Bottini, in the northeastern Milanese district of Lambrate, which, until 1924, was a separate comune from Milan.

History

The passenger building of the original station.

The station inherited its name from an earlier station, located in the district of Ortica. The earlier station was opened in 1896, on the original route of the Milan-Venice railway (the so-called Strada ferrata ferdinandea, named in honour of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria).

The passenger building of the original station still stands in Via G.A. Amedeo, near the church of Saints Faustinus and Jovita and the present-day Buccari flyover.

In 1931, during the reorganization of the entire Milanese railway system, the original station was replaced by the present one, located on the Milan belt railway.

In the early 1990s, a new Passenger Terminal was constructed. It was designed by the architect Ignazio Gardella and is located in Piazza Monte Titano. The 1931 building, renovated in 2005, now houses several commercial tenants.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

• Express services (Treno regionale) Milan - Treviglio - Brescia - Verona
• Express services (Treno regionale) Milan - Pioltello - Bergamo
• Regional services (Treno regionale) Sesto San Giovanni - Milan - Treviglio - Brescia
• Milan Metropolitan services (S9) Saronno - Seregno - Monza - Milan - Albairate

Features

The station is equipped with 12 platform tracks. They are not used interchangeably, but allocated roughly as follows:

• 1: S9 commuter trains from Saronno to Albairate + goods trains to Milano Smistamento (English: Milan Marshalling yard).
• 2: Trains terminating at Lambrate + goods trains from Smistamento.
• 3: Regional trains from Milano Porta Garibaldi / Milano Greco Pirelli heading towards Piacenza or Voghera.
• 4: S9 commuter trains from Albairate to Saronno, regional trains from Piacenza or Voghera towards Porta Garibaldi / Greco Pirelli.
• 5: Local and medium-distance trains from Porta Garibaldi / Greco Pirelli towards Treviglio (regular line).
• 6: Local and medium-distance trains from Treviglio (regular line) to Porta Garibaldi / Greco Pirelli.
• 7: Medium and long-distance trains from Milano Centrale (central tracks) towards Treviglio (Line AV).
• 8: Medium and long-distance trains from Treviglio (Line AV) to Centrale (central tracks).
• 9: Long-distance trains (and therefore usually non stopping) from Centrale (central tracks) towards Milano Rogoredo.
• 10: Long-distance trains (and therefore usually non stopping) from Rogoredo to Centrale (central tracks).
• 11: Regional and Interregional trains from Centrale (right side tracks) to Rogoredo.
• 12: Regional and Interregional trains from Rogoredo to Centrale (right side rails).

Inside the passenger building.

Despite having so many platform tracks, the station is undersized compared with its passenger flow (according to Centostazioni, 16 million passenger movements per year), and has inadequate spaces.

In particular, the pedestrian underpasses running beneath the tracks (to allow passenger access to the station) are too small, and cause great inconvenience at peak times when they become overcrowded.

Interchange

The station offers interchange with Milan Metro Line M2 (green), tram line 23, tram line 33, trolleybus line 93, several urban bus lines (NM2, N54, 39, 53, 54, 75, 81, Q39, Q75) and an intercity bus line (924).

See also

• Railway stations in Milan
• History of rail transport in Italy
• Rail transport in Italy
• Railway stations in Italy

External links

Media related to Milano Lambrate railway station at Wikimedia Commons

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at February 2011.