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Train operators
  
Trenord

Opened
  
17 August 1840

Connections
  
Local buses

Phone
  
+39 336 358 4589

Monza railway station

Location
  
Via Enrico Arosio 14 20052 Monza Monza, Monza and Brianza, Lombardy Italy

Operated by
  
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni

Line(s)
  
Milano–Chiasso Lecco–Milan Monza–Molteno–Lecco

Distance
  
11.934 km (7.415 mi) from Milano Centrale 12.575 km (7.814 mi) from Milano Porta Garibaldi

Address
  
Piazza Castello, 20900 Monza MB, Italy

Province
  
Province of Monza and Brianza

Similar
  
Milano Greco Pirelli rail, Seregno railway station, Lissone‑Muggiò railway station, Como San Giovanni railway st, Lecco railway station

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

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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 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.

    References

    Monza railway station Wikipedia