Treviglio railway station

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Treviglio
Railway Station
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Treviglio railway station
General information
LocationPiazza Giuseppe Verdi
24047, Treviglio
Italy
Coordinates 45°30′55″N09°35′19″E / 45.51528°N 9.58861°E / 45.51528; 9.58861
Owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated by Trenord
Line(s) Milano–Venezia
Treviglio–Bergamo
Treviglio–Cremona
Distance33.143 km (20.594 mi)
from Milano Centrale
Platforms10
Other information
Classification Gold [1]
History
Opened5 March 1878;145 years ago (1878-03-05)
Location
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Treviglio
Location in Lombardy
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Treviglio
Location in Northern Italy
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Treviglio
Location in Italy

Treviglio railway station (Italian : Stazione di Treviglio), also known as Treviglio centrale railway station (Italian: Stazione centrale di Treviglio) is the main station serving the town and comune of Treviglio, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy. Opened in 1878, it has a higher average number of passengers per day than Treviglio's other railway station, Treviglio Ovest.

Contents

The station lies on the Milan–Venice railway, Treviglio–Bergamo railway and Treviglio–Cremona railway and is terminus of two suburban railways passing through Milan toward Novara (S6) and Varese (S5).

By those lines are also reachable Brescia, Lodi and Verona.

The station is managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) and the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. The train services are operated mainly by Trenord.

Location

Treviglio railway station is situated at Piazzale Giuseppe Verdi, at the southern edge of the town centre.

The station offers a surveilled parking for bikes, a ticket office, a newsstand, a bar and a near small car parking.

On the Piazzale Giuseppe Verdi there are bus and taxi parkings, on the opposite side lie a bar and the Treviglio Hotel.

History

The station was opened on 5 March 1878, upon the inauguration of the direct Treviglio–Rovato section of the Milan–Venice railway, [2] [3] being the second in the new Kingdom of Italy.

In 1885, the station became part of the Rete Adriatica, under the management of the Società per le Strade Ferrate Meridionali ("Company for the Southern Railways", SFM). After the nationalisation of Italy's railways in 1905, it was operated by the FS.

In 2014 the station has been modernized, with the reconstruction of the square before the facade to facilitate traffic and the introduction of elevators for disabled and cameras for security.

Since 2016 a police unit has been placed in the station, considering the increasing of aggressions and theft on public transports on national scale.

Before 1878, there had been two other stations which, at different times, had been called Treviglio:

The first station

The first Treviglio station, which was also informally referred to as Treviglio Molino, [4] was located east of the current central station.

It was built by the Imperial-Regia Privilegiata Strada Ferrata Ferdinandea Lombardo-Veneta (German: k.k. priv. Lombardisch-Venetianische Ferdinandsbahn; "Imperial–Royal Privileged Lombard-Venetian Ferdinand Railway"), the company that had obtained the "privilege" (concession) for building and operating the Milan–Venice railway, also called the Ferdinandea after Ferdinand I of Austria.The original intention of the company was to connect Milan to Venice via Brescia. The section from Milan Porta Tosa station to Treviglio station was inaugurated on 15 February 1846. [5] From that day, the railway service ran between Bergamo and Milan and passengers continued on stagecoaches between Treviglio and Vicenza, where the other section of the Ferdinandea began. [6]

In 1852, the management of the railway and its infrastructure, including Treviso station, passed to the Lombardisch-Venetianische Staatsbahn (Italian: Strade Ferrate Lombardo-Venete dello Stato, "Lombard-Venetian State Railway"). In 1856 another transfer of ownership occurred, caused by a financial crisis of the Austrian treasury which ceded all its railways to a group of banks, including the Rothschild family. They formed the Imperial Regia Privilegiata Società delle ferrovie lombardo-venete, then merged three years later into the Imperial Regia Privilegiata Società delle ferrovie meridionali dello Stato, del Lombardo-Veneto e dell'Italia Centrale (part of the Austrian Southern Railway Company, Südbahn-Gesellschaft), when the same group acquired other railway lines in the Austrian Empire. [7]

The second station

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The second Treviglio station

The second station was located along the current Treviglio-Bergamo railway south of the current Treviglio Ovest station. Near this station is the old passenger building, which is now used as a residence for railway workers. [4]

The Società delle ferrovie lombardo-venete had undertaken to complete the Milano–Venice railway under an agreement of 14 March 1856 [8] This established the obligation to build the MonzaBergamoBrescia route instead of the direct one passing through Treviglio. For purely economic reasons, the Austrian company asked for and obtained the use of the existing section between Milan and Treviglio and then built a direct line between Treviglio and Bergamo. [9] The new station was built on the new Treviglio–Bergamo–Coccaglio line, north-west of the town, and was opened on the day of its inauguration, while the old station was abandoned. [10]

The management of this station passed to the Società delle Strade Ferrate della Lombardia e dell'Italia Centrale in 1860 [11] and five years later to the Società per le Ferrovie dell'Alta Italia, which were different names of companies controlled by the Rothschild family.

The second station was closed in 1878 with the opening of the direct Treviglio–Rovato section and the consequent dismantling of the direct line between this station and Caravaggio, the latter replaced by a route passing through the town's new station. [4] [note 1]

Passenger and train movements

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View of the station yard

The station has about 3.5 million passenger movements each year. [13]

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

Preceding station Linee S di Milano.svg Milan suburban railway service Following station
Cassano d'Adda
towards Varese
Trenord
S5
Terminus
Cassano d'Adda
towards Novara
Trenord
S6
Ferrovie dello Stato
Treviglio Ovest
toward Bergamo
  Trenord
R2
 Terminus
Pioltello-Limito
toward Milan Greco
  Trenord
R4
  Vidalengo
toward Brescia
Terminus  Trenord
R6
  Caravaggio
toward Cremona
Pioltello-Limito
toward Milan Central
  Trenord
RE6
  Romano
toward Verona

Interchange

There is interchange at the station with suburban buses.

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References

Notes

  1. According to Giovanni Spinelli, the second Treviglio station was kept in operation at the request of the people of Bergamo for a few more years. [12]

Footnotes

  1. List of Italian stations and categories Archived 2015-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Spinelli 1984, p. 27.
  3. Prospetto cronologico 1927.
  4. 1 2 3 Guerini Rocco 1996, p. 57.
  5. Ganzerla 2004, p. 86.
  6. Ganzerla 2004, p. 88.
  7. Ganzerla 2004, p. 133.
  8. Dal Negro 1978, pp. 32–33.
  9. Dal Negro 1978, p. 33.
  10. Guerini Rocco 1996, p. 53.
  11. Specification annexed to the Convention dated 25 June 1860 between the Ministers of HM King Vittorio Emanuele II for Public Works and Finance, and the Railways of Lombardy–Venetia and Central Italy. Article 1, section A, clause 1.
  12. Spinelli 1984, p. 25 (note 79).
  13. "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. www.trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

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