Tracks 1 and 2 of Milano Certosa Station

Along the railroad tracks 1 and 2 of Milano Certosa Station, railway station of Milan and station of Milan Passante railway, run trains to Milan Central, Milan Porta Garibaldi and to Milan belt railway, and in the opposite direction out of Milan, they are high-speed trains, regional fast trains and freight trains.
The two tracks are part of the Milan Central - Rho railway at kilometer 8 + 526, track 1 is driven by train to the east, to Milan, track 2 to the west, outbound Milan.

There are many high-speed trains that pass along the first two tracks of the station of Milano Certosa.
Pass through them for Trenitalia, trains Frecciabianca (White Arrow) line Milano Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) some for line Milan Central - Turin Porta Nuova, others for Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova. Trains for (or coming from) Milan Central speed at high speed, those direct to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi slow down the rush to exchange track, make the deviate, between the tracks of the Milan Central - Rho to that of Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho shortly after the station in the direction of Milan.
Pass through them also high-speed trains Italo of New Passenger Transport (In Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa and SNCF TGV line Milano Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon, like Frecciarossa before mentioned, going in the station at a reduced speed for the deviate and Swiss train EuroCity line Milan Centrale - Simplon Tunnel - Basilea and return, at all speed.

In addition pass fast regional trains line Milano Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and Milan Central - Domodossola and freight trains to the belt railway of Milan crossed just a few meters from the station of Milano Certosa towards Milan at Bivio Musocco (Musocco Cross), a corridor North West - North East East along Milan intersecting numerous railway lines.

In case of problem with the operation of trains and rarely, the two tracks have been used by trains of the Milan Passante railway that normally stop on the tracks 5 and 6. The platforms of tracks in the central section of the station have a V-cover with glass sheets.

It's exciting to be on the first two tracks of the station and seeing run few meters away trains, in particular those at high-speed, admiring speed, aerodynamic shape and low noise, pride of technology and science, and the colors of their liveries, from red of Frecciarossa, the red white for Frecciabianca and EuroCity, until burgundy of Italo.


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