Gallarate railway station

Gallarate

The passenger building

The passenger building
Location Piazza Giovanni XXIII
Gallarate, Varese, Lombardy
Italy
Coordinates 45°39′31″N 08°48′03″E / 45.65861°N 8.80083°E / 45.65861; 8.80083Coordinates: 45°39′31″N 08°48′03″E / 45.65861°N 8.80083°E / 45.65861; 8.80083
Operated by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Centostazioni
Line(s) Domodossola–Milan
Luino–Milan
Porto Ceresio–Milan
Distance 24.922 km (15.486 mi) from Rho
Train operators Trenord
TiLo
Trenitalia
Connections
  • Urban and suburban buses
Other information
Classification Gold
History
Opened 21 June 1873 (1873-06-21)
Electrified October 14, 1901 (1901-10-14)
Location
Gallarate
Location within Northern Italy

Gallarate railway station (Italian: Stazione di Gallarate) serves the city and comune of Gallarate, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy. Opened in 1860, it forms part of the Domodossola–Milan railway, and is a terminus of two secondary railways, to Luino and to Porto Ceresio.

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

Train services are operated by Trenitalia, Trenord and TiLo.

Location

Gallarate railway station is situated at Piazza Giovanni XXIII, on the southeastern edge of the city centre.

History

The station was opened on 20 December 1860, together with the Rho–Gallarate section of the Rho–Arona railway.[1]

On 24 July 1865, the next section of the Rho–Arona railway, from Gallarate to Sesto Calende, went into operation.[1] Two months later, on 26 September 1865, Gallarate became a junction station, for the newly opened Gallarate–Varese railway.[1]

On 17 March 1884, another secondary line, the Gallarate–Laveno railway, commenced operations into Gallarate.[1]

Features

The station yard has eight tracks, including five through tracks equipped with platforms:

View of the station yard.

Just beyond the station, towards Milan, is a goods yard, now abandoned, and a workshop for the maintenance of rolling stock. The workshop has been closed for over ten years, but may eventually reopen.

Adjacent to track 1 is a State Police station, close to the Commissariat.

Passenger and train movements

The station has about 6.6 million passenger movements each year.[2]

The passenger trains calling at the station are mainly regional services and Line S5 Milan suburban services. The station is also served by two pairs of EuroCity trains providing connections between Milan and either Geneva or Basel.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Alessandro Tuzza; et al. "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" [Chronological overview of the features of the railways opened between 1839 and 31 December 1926]. Trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. Centostazioni website (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010. External link in |work= (help)

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