Arcore railway station is a railway station in

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. Located on the

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, it serves the municipality of Arcore with trains from and to

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(" S8", main service), and

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(regional trains, "R"). A second station - of a different railway line, the Monza-Molteno-Lecco railway - is present in Arcore, located in ''Ca' Bianca-Buttafava'' area ( Buttafava railway station, of " S7" line of

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), with trains from and to Monza-Milano or Lecco, but running through a more long and slow way than the trains of the main Arcore station (across the

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hills zone - ''Colli Briantei'' - instead than straight to Lecco through the most short way).

Ticket Office

A ticket office and a self-service machine is present in main Arcore station (Not at Buttafava station). When ticket office is closed, if self-service machine is out of service and no other kind of

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authorised resellers is open around 200 meter from the station, ticket can be purchased aboard of the train, asking soon for this just when goin aboard to the " chief train" (Italian: ''CapoTreno''); otherwise you have to pay surcharge and/or mulct. The most part of the tickets require to be validated just some minutes before to go aboard the train, doing this by electronic machines validation (blue colored, for small Magneto-Electronic ''SBME'' paper tickets) or mechanics machine validation (yellow colored, for the 5 kind of normal paper tickets: ATB Ticket, Trenord, Lottomatica, Sisal and S.I.R.), both located in the station (3 blue and 2 yellow); this will start the countdown for expiration of the ticket, by stamping current date, time, location/validation-machine-id on it, and in case also reading and recording information on magnetic data strip of ''SBME'' tickets. If all the machines validation you need are out of service, ask for validation to the ticket office; if the ticket office is close, ask soon for validation to "chief train" when aboard. All the kind of trains stopping in Arcore stations ("R", "S7", "S8") can be used with single journey ticket train or a lot of multi pass ticket, only train or integrated tickets, up to the integrated regional ticket " Io Viaggio Ovunque in Lombardia" for multi-journeys on the entire local

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network in the region of

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Interchange

The station offers interchange with bus, mainly to and from

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.On both sides of the railway there are bus stops of different lines; full list and timetables at http://www.muoversi.regione.lombardia.it/planner/changeLocale.do?loc=en&redir=/orarioLinea.do&method=Muoversi+in+Lombardia MUOVERSI IN LOMBARDIA - public transportation on line timetables (Enter ''Arcore, Stazione'' in the "Stop" area, wait and select ''Arcore, Stazione'' from the menu, then press "Search" button)

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* {{Italian railway stations Railway stations in Lombardy Milan S Lines stations Railway stations opened in 1873

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