Mortara–Milan railway

The Mortara–Milan railway is a railway line in Lombardy, Italy.

Mortara–Milan railway
Overview
Status	in use
Owner	RFI
Locale	Lombardy, Italy
Termini	Mortara Milan
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Trenord
History
Opened	17 January 1870
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC
Route map km elev from Alessandria from Pavia / from Asti 0.000 Mortara to Novara / to Vercelli 5.270 Parona Lomellina 12.697 36.890 Vigevano Ticino Cava Ticino until 1962 [1] 26.305 Abbiategrasso 23.042 Albairate-Vermezzo since 2009 [2] 17.217 Gaggiano 16.150 P.C. Gaggiano 14.111 Trezzano sul Naviglio since 1987 [3] 11.900 Cesano Boscone since 2009 [2] 10.722 Corsico until 2009 [2] 10.397 Corsico since 2009 [2] 8.582 Milano San Cristoforo Milan belt railway 5.206 Milano Porta Genova km Source: Italian railway atlas[4]

History

The section from Mortara to Vigevano was opened in 1854 by the Kingdom of Sardinia. The section from Vigevano to Milan was put into service after the Italian unification, in 1870.[5]

See also

• List of railway lines in Italy

References

Footnotes

1. Ordine di Servizio n. 18 del 1962
2. Impianti FS. In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 322 (January 2010). P. 6-7
3. Notizie flash. In: ″I Treni Oggi″ Nr. 78. P. 7.
4. Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 20, 21, 130, 131.
5. Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926

Sources

• RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 31 (Mortara–Milan) (in Italian). Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.
• Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.