Cascina Gobba is a station on Line 2 of the

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. The station is located on Via

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at the west side of the A51 Milan bypass road. This is beside the major highway interchange known as ''Cascina Gobba'', which is the main vehicular transportation hub of northeast

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. The line branches here to terminate at either Cologno Nord or

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. The station takes its name from Cascina Gobba, a nearby rural village. MeLA, a fully automated

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opened in 1999, connects the station to the

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History

The station was inaugurated in 1968 with the opening of the '' Linee celeri dell'Adda'', served by interurban fast tram to Vaprio and

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. The following year the station started to be part of the newly built Line 2 of the Milan Metro, between Cascina Gobba and

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, as an east

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of the line. On 4 December 1972, tram service was replaced by rapid transit, and thus the line was extended to

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. The station became a

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on 7 June 1981 with the opening of the

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branch to Cologno Nord. Since 1999, the station is also the terminus of the MeLA people mover to San Raffaele Hospital.

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Line 2 (Milan Metro) stations Milan Metro stations located above ground Railway stations opened in 1968 1968 establishments in Italy {{Milan-metro-stub