Passante Ferroviario di Milano

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Milano Lancetti station

Overview

Native name

Passante ferroviario di Milano

Status

operational

Owner

RFI

Locale

Milan, Italy

Stations

Service

Type

commuter rail

Services

S1, S2, S5, S6, S12, S13

Operator(s)

Trenord

Daily ridership

174,000

History

Opened

1997 (1997)

Technical

Line length

13 km (8.1 mi)

Number of tracks

Track gauge

1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

Electrification

3 kV DC, overhead line

Operating speed

60 km/h (37 mph)

Route map

Diagram

Legend

From Turin and Domodossola

13+316

Milano Certosa

Belt line

12+036

Milano Villapizzone opened 2002

FN line to Saronno

† 1+911

Milano Bovisa

opened 1879

Ferrovie Nord Milano line

from Milano Cadorna

FN line to Asso

† 0+000

9+734

Milano Lancetti opened 1997

8+410

Milano Porta Garibaldi opened 1963/97

"Passantino" to Greco Pirelli and Milano Lambrate

7+322

Milano Repubblica opened 1997

6+376

Milano Porta Venezia opened 1997

5+063

Milano Dateo opened 2002

3+204

Milano Porta Vittoria opened 2004

Milano Forlanini

~ Pioltello branch ~

Belt line (high)

Belt line (low)

From Milano Lambrate

0+000

Lambro junction From Milano Lambrate

Goods line from Milano Smistamento

To Venice (DD / LL)

~ Rogoredo branch ~

Southern belt line

9+567

208+751

Milano Rogoredo

To Genoa / Bologna

†: kilometrage on Bovisa branch, measured from Lancetti.

The Passante Ferroviario di Milano is an underground railway which runs through Milan, Italy.

The first part was opened in 1997 and was completed in 2008. Its main feature is to be open in its extremities, and to be directly interconnected with the railway system of Lombardy. It is only used by suburban trains operated by Trenord.

The passante is connected with subway lines at Porta Garibaldi station (Line 2 and Line 5), Repubblica station (Line 3), Rogoredo (Line 3), Porta Venezia (Line 1), and Dateo (Line 4).

The railway runs on the same line of the historic Milanese northern railway, which was removed in 1931 when the Milanese railway system was redesigned along with the opening of the grand new Central Station.

"Passante" is the Italian word for "passing" and is used to describe a railway built through a major city, connecting suburban lines. This is modelled on S-Bahn underground junctions built in West Germany in the 1970s.

History

The idea of a suburban railway network for the city of Milan can be traced back to the 1960s, when the increasing population of the city and the surrounding boroughs made clear the need for a faster and more efficient way to complete medium to longer distance journeys. Designs for an underground railway passing through the city centre were completed at the end of the 1970s, and construction began in 1982, with the work expected to be completed in less than 10 years.

Actual work proceeded very slowly, taking 15 years just to open the first part of the track from Bovisa to Porta Venezia. From 1997 only a shuttle service was operated on the partially completed track. Two years later the Certosa branch was opened and was completed in 2002 with the opening of the new Villapizzone station. In the same year the Passante was expanded on the south-east to Dateo.

In 2004, in conjunction with the opening of Porta Vittoria station, the new suburban service was activated. The cost at that time was already €915 million after 22 years of construction work.

The railway was completed in 2008 with the connection to the last station, Rogoredo.

References and Notes

"Passante, Farisè: "Passeggeri +150%. Ora una Circle Line per Milano"" (in Italian). Affari Italiani. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
"Milan Urban Railway (Passante)". TRENORD S.r.l. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
^ (in Italian) Storia del Passante - sottomilano.it
^ Stagni, Giorgio. "Il passante di Milano". Il servizio ferroviario regionale (in Italian). miol.it/stagniweb. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
(in Italian) Il Passante è una realtà. In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 190 (February 1998), p. 5.
^ (in Italian) Il Passante - msrmilano.com
"Passante, nuovo metrò di Milano" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 3 October 2011.