The station is the reference point for transport in the north-west of the city, not served by a subway. It's vital to Musocco, Quartiere Vialba, Quarto (Fourth) Oggiaro, Quartiere Varesina, Garegnano, Roserio, Rho Fiera, Rho and beyond
The station of Milano Certosa is located between the trams and road bridge of Via Filippo Palizzi and the cable-strayed bridge of Viale Certosa Interchange, the latter a few meters after the end of the train tracks.
The station has seven tracks and two pedestrian subways.
The first two tracks are about 400 meters long, the other 350 meters. The tracks 1, 3 and 5 have an easterly direction, to Milan, the tracks 2, 4 and 6 westbound, outside Milan, the seventh track is service. The tracks 1 and 2 belong to railroad Milan Central - Rho, the tracks 3 and 4 to Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho, the railway track 5 and 6 at the line of Milan Passante railway.
The first track verges along the old house of Via Giovanni Fattori 2, the tenement house and industrial sheds at Via Antonio Mambretti 5 and 9, track 7 is along Via Triboniano.
Clearly visible from the tracks of the station are the clock and the digital thermometer with in the middle a billboard placed on top of a house behind Via Mambretti to Viale Certosa Interchange.
Milano Certosa Station is trains stop of Milan Passante railway suburban line S5 Treviglio - Varese and suburban line S6 Treviglio - Novara.
In the station transit trains of numerous lines of passenger transport: Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon, Milan Central - Basel some of which are high-speed lines, Milano Centrale - Domodossola, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Arona, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Varese, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Luino. Remarkable is also the passage of freight trains.
Trains of Milan Passante railway lines S5 and S6 stop at track 5 and 6 of the station, at track 5 trains S5 originate from Varese and S6 from Novara headed to the city and then to Treviglio and at platform 6 trains of the same lines out of Milan, sometimes the train ride is limited to Pioltello-Limito for Novara trains.
Trains in circulation are modern double-decker Treno Servizio Regionale (Regional Service Train, TSR) evolution of Treno Alta Frequentazione (High Attendance Train, TAF) of Trenord. The cadence of these trains is every half an hour each way, then every quarter of an hour to and from the city section.
Along the tracks 1 and 2 pass through high-speed trains to and from Milan Centrale and to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi, the latter after the station towards Milan, making the deviant, the exchange of tracks, slowing the race or stopping waiting for the green signal while the first ones to Milan Centrale, traveling at high speed.
The high-speed line originates after the station of Milan Certosa towards Rho.
The high-speed trains of line Milan Centrale - Torino Porta Nuova are FS Trenitalia Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) and Frecciabianca (White Arrow), those of the Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova FS Trenitalia Frecciarossa, line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa Italo of New Passenger Transport (In Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori).
Some high-speed trains passing in the first two tracks reach foreign locations: SNCF TGV line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare De Lyon and Swiss railways SBB CFF FFS EuroCity for line Milan Central - Simplon Tunnel - Basel.
In the tracks 1 and 2, in addition to high-speed trains, pass fast regional trains of line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova recognizable by coaches with images of Turin city on the classic XMPR livery and of line Milano Centrale - Domodossola, in station go by fast.
Along tracks 3 and 4 transit fast trains of lines Milan Porta Garibaldi - Varese, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Arona, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Luino and not stopping in the station.
Travelers trains are modern Trenord trains, as Vivalto and Treno Alta Frequentazione, any trains passing along the rails 5 and 6.
Some high-speed trains to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi as TGV pass along track 3 and 4 without making the change of track.
Remarkable is also the passage of freight trains as main route the Milan belt railway line which begins at Bivio Musocco (Musocco Cross) shortly after Milan Certosa Station towards Milan, a railroad corridor, between the west and north-west of Milan and the east and north of the city, that crosses many lines.
Freight trains traveling along the first six tracks of the station. Trains are Trenitalia Cargo, NordCargo, Crossrail, Hupac, and others.
At the station you can also see the passage of empty trains for the maintenance plant and train depot in Milan Fiorenza, the largest in Italy with an area of 450,000 square meters, not far from the station of Milano Certosa between the municipality of Milan and Rho or departing from there to reach the destination of the train's departure, I remember among others, the night trains of Trenitalia.
Frequent is the passage of trains throughout the first four tracks in the order of a few minutes for each track.
Platforms are equipped with large panels with clock that inform the incoming train on the track with any delay and monitors that indicate the trains that stop at the station, the loudspeakers that signal in advance with metallic voice the arrival or transit train, platforms have not ticket validation machine but they have metal benches and recycling garbage bins. The platform 5 also has two automatic machines for coffee and snacks.
Two are the subways station, the first inside the station, whose entrance is a validation machine for magnetic tickets, towards Via Varesina crossing Via Triboniano, the most crowded and erroneously indicated by the exit in north direction as Via Mambretti, is also cycling with separate structure in entry and exit. The second subway is 100 meters ahead at the beginning of Via Antonio Mambretti corner Via Giovanni Fattori and exit in Via Triboniano.
The subways are functional but anonymous, tiled mainly in white color conmbined with yellow, blue and gray, the stairs to the underpass and from underpass to the tracks are wide enough, in the subway for each stairway to the tracks there is a yellow validation machine but not for magnetic tickets, although today almost all train and ATM tickets are.
The entire complex of the new station of Milano Certosa, became station of Milan Passante railway, was built slowly from the mid-90s until the early 2000. The station was designed by Angelo Mangiarotti.
Each station platform has a cover in the shape of V with vault consists of a set of glass sheets supported by oval cylindrical pylon, metal voids internally, numbered ending in V, the structure is black, the outer part of the station in the west direction is not covered.
The appearance of the station tracks and platforms mirrors the other stations of Milan Passante railway, the structure along the tracks can be considered modern and aesthetic result was discreet.
The station building is composed of two wings, in the one a prefabricated architecturally modest, reminds of a large box of sheet metal in which there is a Italian Network Railway place, in the other one the ticket not working, the bar overlooking the track 1 which does not sell train tickets with a few tables and two punching machines at the entrance of which one is for magnetic tickets, and a room with a written travel agency that I have never seen open.
A small fee parking of station, at the beginning of Via Mambretti, has been closed for years and it is in a state of neglect, the address of the station should be Via Fattori, a large pedestrian square not well maintained opens to Via Palizzi and to right out of the station towards Via Palizzi the Esselunga supermarket.
Near the railway station, from the side of Musocco and Quarto Oggiaro, distant about 100 meters passing two bus lines, lines 40 and 57, and two tram 12 and 19 covering all directions of the area of the North West of Milan, the bus 57 stops in Via Eritrea and arrives in Largo Cairoli, Milan center, the other 3 ATM lines have stops in Via Filippo Palizzi. From the side of Via Varesina passes the bus 40 and the terminus of the tram in Piazzale Cacciatori delle Alpi, now unused, is located 200 meters from the subway.
The old station was demolished in the late '90s, was where now there is the abandoned parking lot, had a pedestrian catwalk that exceeded it between the beginning of Via Mambretti and Via Triboniano. Before the War the station was called Musocco which until 1923 was an independent municipality, the station is in fact among the oldest in Italy dates back to 1858, when it was built the railway line Milan Centrale - Rho cutting Musocco to Varesina Road, historic road linking Milan to Varese, now Via Varesina one hand on the other Via Antonio Mambretti.
The station of Milano Certosa like other of Milan Passante railway is functional, the tracks where trains stop are separate from those in which the trains pass, the platforms wide enough as their access and tracks well separated from platforms preventing the track crossing.
The trains are frequent, every quarter of an hour but to improve, and recently punctual, very good information of trains that stop at the station with several monitors and panels, speakers sound signaling the arrival or transit trains. The main flaw is the absence of the ticket or a store that takes the place, also the bar is too far away from the tracks of Passante railway and the ticket validation machines are always broken (or are broken) and the number for magnetic ticket insufficient, which company does not verify the possibility that its service can be paid. Discreet cleaning. Aesthetically the side of the tracks is acceptable, bad the station building.
For me the Milan Certosa Station, which is about 13 minutes walk from my house, is the gateway to the world, the start and finish of each trip, small or large, to Milan, going down at Milan Porta Garibaldi to Corso Como and Corso Garibaldi, or hiking trips to the mountains, lakes, hills, valleys, in the Lecco province, the Brianza, Mount Resegone, Tesoro, Grigne, the Valsassina and Lake of Como with the mountains that overlook the lake, exchanging trains in Milan Porta Garibaldi or going to Milan Republic to the Central Station and the same route in reverse arriving at track 6.
How many memories of the trains subway from Via Varesina running, of fast ticket stampings removing the backpack lowering my left shoulder rotating it on the front by opening the zipper on the fly and taking the wallet with the ticket, and climbs stairs two steps at a time. Oh, how many thoughts when you leave the station on the train, pressed in between other travelers in the morning, and which when you return to the track 6 !!
So much irritating waiting for the train in station when you are in a hurry and want to get to a destination when you would like to take the train on time and this does not arrive, so it is nice to spend a half hour or an hour at the station watching and waiting the train passage.
On tracks 1 and 2 it is spectacular is the passage of high speed trains of several companies with their aerodynamic shapes power of technology and their uniforms, those that slow can be observed in the details. Beautiful the liveries of Frecciarossa, Frecciabianca and EuroCity that little they get confused, the wine of Italo and what about the nose of the TGV.
Not be disappointed even by fast regional trains of Trenitalia although they are a bit all the same but they go fast.
Distinctive, loud, colorful and with unequal forms, the passage of freight trains, sometimes when they are discharged I would jump on.
On other tracks pretty good are the new regional trains Trenord, while less beautiful to see the high attendance trains of Passante railway also because they enter at a reduced speed in the station to stop.
You can also watch the rush of travelers who reach the tracks of the railway, their wait, the filling and emptying of the tracks before and after the passage of trains. You can even relax at Bar Gallo in the station and loudspeakers station, train in the rail transit [number of the track], do not get over the yellow line, keep company and are waiting for a new passage, maybe a crossing of high-speed trains.
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