Railway Stations In Milan
Milan has 23 railway stations in use today. Of these, 18 are managed by RFI, while the remaining 6 are operated by Ferrovienord. Three more stations are currently under construction or in the planning stage for the city area: ''Canottieri'', ''Dergano'' and ''Zama''. History of rail transport in Milan In the huge explosion of rail transport in the 19th century, Milan was one of the places that invested in the development of this type of transport. In the late 1830s, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria granted "the privilege to build a road on iron rails from Milan to Monza" to the ''Holzhammer'' company of Bolzano. The privilege authorized the construction of a railway project developed by the Milanese engineer Giulio Sarti. The Milan–Monza railway, opened in 1840, was the first railway line in Lombardy, and the second in Italy after the Naples–Portici railway. Milan's first railway station, Porta Nuova, formed part of the new railway. It was placed outside the circle of rampa ...
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