Monza railway station

Monza
The passenger building.
Location	Via Enrico Arosio 14 20052 Monza Monza, Monza and Brianza, Lombardy Italy
Coordinates
Operated by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni
Line(s)	Milano–Chiasso Lecco–Milan Monza–Molteno–Lecco
Distance	from Milano Centrale from Milano Porta Garibaldi
Train operators	Trenord
Connections	Local buses
Other information
Classification	Gold
History
Opened	17 August 1840 (1840-08-17)
Location

Monza railway station (Italian: Stazione di Monzacode: it is deprecated ) is the main station serving the city and comune of Monza, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy.

Opened in 1840, the station forms part of the Milan–Chiasso railway, and is a junction station for two secondary lines, the Lecco–Milan railway and the Monza–Molteno–Lecco railway. It is also the main railway junction of the Brianza geographical area, which encompasses the province of Monza and Brianza, Province of Lecco, Province of Como and part of the Province of Milan.

The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. Both companies are subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.

Train services are operated by the lombard railway company Trenord.

Location

Monza railway station is situated at Via Enrico Arosio, at the southern edge of the city centre.

History

The station was officially opened on 17 August 1840, as the terminus of the Milan–Monza railway, which was the first railway built in Lombardy and the second in Italy, after the Naples–Portici railway. Operations commenced the following day, 18 August 1840. In July 1849, that line was extended, to Camnago-Lentate, on its way to becoming the Milan–Chiasso railway.

On 27 December 1873, Monza became a junction station, upon the opening of final section of the Lecco–Milan railway, between Carnate-Usmate and Monza.

The original passenger building was replaced with the present one in 1884, when the station was moved to a new location. In 1901, the original passenger building was demolished to facilitate the construction of the Via Turati bridge.

On 19 October 1911, Monza also became the terminus of another secondary line, the Monza–Molteno–Lecco railway.

Features

The station yard.

The station yard consists of seven tracks: 1 and 2 for Chiasso, 3 previously shared between the Chiasso–Milan and Lecco–Milan railways, 4 and 5 for Tirano (RFI), and 6 (as the main platform) and 7 (as the overtaking platform) for the Lecco and Molteno lines.

The station also has a freight terminal that serves, amongst other things, the nearby storage area of the former Lombard Petroli, at Villasanta.

Passenger and train movements

The station has about seven million passenger movements each year.

The main destinations are as follows:

• Milan;
• Lecco and Molteno;
• Bergamo (via Carnate);
• Sondrio and Tirano.

Interchange

The station is connected with the Milan suburban railway network by Lines S8, S9 and S11. It also has a bus terminal for local buses.

See also

• History of rail transport in Italy
• List of railway stations in Lombardy
• Rail transport in Italy
• Railway stations in Italy

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station		Milan suburban railway service		Following station
Monza Sobborghi toward Lecco		Trenord S7		Sesto San Giovanni toward Milano Porta Garibaldi
Arcore toward Lecco		Trenord S8		Sesto San Giovanni toward Milano Porta Garibaldi
Lissone-Muggiò toward Saronno		Trenord S9		Sesto San Giovanni toward Albairate-Vermezzo
Lissone-Muggiò toward Chiasso		Trenord S11		Sesto San Giovanni toward Rho