Chiasso – Milan railway line

Chiasso – Milan
The route at Camnago
Route number (RFI) :	25th
Course book series (IT) :	27
Route length:	51 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3000V  =
Dual track :	Yes
Legend S 10 S 40 Gotthard Railway from Immensee 50.765 Chiasso terminus S 10 238 m Switzerland / Italy Monte Olimpino 2 (7,209 m) Monte Olimpino 1 (1,925 m) Como port railway 46.619 Como San Giovanni 217 m Saronno – Como ( FNM ) by Como Camerlata (FN) 41.679 Albate - Camerlata terminus S 40 277 m to Lecco 40,340 Bivio Rosales 37,334 Cucciago 263 m Galleria Cucciago 34.171 Cantù - Cermenate station until 2011 249 m 31.764 Carimate 239 m 27.092 Camnago- Lentate terminus 220 m to Seveso Milan – Asso railway line from Novara 21,598 Seregno 220 m to Ponte San Pietro 18,432 Desio 202 m 16,348 Lissone - Muggiò station until 2003 188 m Galleria di Monza from Lecco and Molteno 11,934 (12,575) Monza 158 m left: Linea Chiasso; right: Linea Lecco A 52 A 4 - E 64 7,060 (7,695) Sesto San Giovanni new train station (since 1969) 139 m Sesto San Giovanni old train station (until 1969) 3,351 (3,984) Milano Greco Pirelli 131 m to Milano Lambrate (Gürtelbahn) from Domodossola and Turin and SFS from Turin to Milano Certosa Belt Railway (2,087) Bivio / PC Mirabello Per Bivio / PC Mirabello (1,854 m) 0.000 Milano Centrale 130 m Garibaldi tunnel (0.000) Milano Porta Garibaldi terminus 126 m to Domodossola, Turin and the Gürtelbahn

The Chiasso – Milan railway line is a cross-border, continuously double-track main railway line electrified with 3000 volts direct current between Chiasso ( Switzerland ) and Milan . The route is owned by the FS infrastructure subsidiary RFI .

meaning

The track is next to the axis Novara - Bellinzona (with the railway lines Novara-Luino and Luino-Bellinzona ) one of the two Südzufahrten Italy to Gotthardbahn and Gotthardtunnel . While the route via Luino is of great importance in freight traffic, the Chiasso – Milan line, in addition to the rest of the freight traffic, provides all of the international long-distance passenger transport between Switzerland and Italy, which is handled via the Gotthard.

history

The Milan – Monza section was opened on August 18, 1840 by the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto as the second railway line in Italy behind the Napoli – Portici line. Originally the line was to be extended to Bergamo , but when it became clear that a separate license would be necessary for a branch line to Chiasso, the project was abandoned in favor of the extension to Chiasso. On October 10, 1849, the continuation to Camnago - Lentate was opened and on December 6 of the same year the tracks reached the station of Albate - Camerlata . It was completed up to Como in 1875. At the same time as the Gotthard tunnel and the opening of the Ticino valley railway to Chiasso, the gap with the Monte Olimpino tunnel (now Monte Olimpino 1 tunnel ) was completed in 1882 .

In 1898 a trial operation between Milan and Monza with the RM 5101 and 5102 accumulator railcars was set up. This is considered to be the first electric railway company in Italy . However, it was stopped again in 1904.

On July 20, 1941, a serious railway accident occurred in Como station : A passenger train , which was supposed to bring Italian workers to Germany, was hit by parts of the load from a passing freight train . 30 people died.

The Monte Olimpino 2 tunnel went into operation on June 18, 1990 . This tunnel extends over a length of 7209 meters and is located between the border and the Cucciago stop . It was built as a freight bypass for Comos and also serves as such. Over 18,000 freight trains pass through the tunnel every year. In November 2009 it was rehabilitated for ten months after water was able to penetrate through various leaks in the tunnel roof.

The line belonging to ERTMS Corridor A is to be the first Italian line to be completely equipped with ETCS Level 2 . The contract announced in January 2016 runs for two and a half years and has a volume of 31 million euros. The line will also have an electronic signal box .

traffic

passenger traffic

Long-distance transport

The Gotthard axis is next to the Lötschberg- Simplon axis , the second north-south passenger connection between Switzerland and Italy. At the moment, ETR 470 compositions run every two hours as EuroCity between Zurich and Milan. They stop in Chiasso and Como San Giovanni and go to Milano Centrale train station in Milan . From the 2010 timetable change, when the ETR 610 is also to be used on the Gotthard axis, a daily pair of trains from Basel SBB via Lucerne will be added (see EuroCity-Express ). In the past, when the cross-border traffic Basel / Zurich-Gotthard-Italy was still classified in the Intercity category, the train stations of Seregno and Monza also belonged to regular stops.

Regional traffic

The route is an integral part of the Milan S-Bahn . The S11 operated by Trenord (formerly Trenitalia , from 2004 to 2008 TILO ) runs between Chiasso and Milano Porta Garibaldi . In addition, the Camnago- Lentate station is the starting point for the S4 line (formerly from LeNord ) to Milano Cadorna ; however, this line leaves the Chiasso – Milan line immediately after the station on a connection to the FNM Milan – Asso line . From Seregno , the S9 runs to Milano Greco Pirelli , and then takes the Milan bypass via Milano Lambrate to Milano San Cristoforo station .

Freight transport

Since the opening of the transport market on the Gotthard, trains from the companies DB Schenker / NordCargo , BLS Cargo , TX Logistik and Hupac have been running in addition to the SBB freight transport subsidiary SBB Cargo and Trenitalia .

Web links

Commons : Chiasso – Milan railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 335 (March 2011), p. 6.
2. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 252 (October 2003), p. 8.
3. ↑ Giovanni Cornolò: Automotrici elettriche dalle origini al 1983 , Duegi Editrice, 2011, pp 15-17.
4. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 106.
5. ↑ http://www.lotsberg.net/data/rail_5000.html
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ ETCS Level 2 for Italian conventional line. In: railwaygazette.com. January 29, 2016, accessed April 30, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SBB press release on the new 2011 timetable year