The S11 is a

commuter rail Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...

route forming part of the

Milan suburban railway service The Milan S Lines constitute the commuter rail system serving the metropolitan area of Milan, Italy. The system comprises 11 lines serving 124 stations, for a total length of 403 km. There are 415 trains per day with a daily ridership of a ...

( it, Servizio ferroviario suburbano di Milano), which converges on the city of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy. The route runs over the infrastructure of the

Milan–Chiasso railway The Milano–Chiasso railway line is an Italian state-owned railway connecting Milan to Como and Chiasso, Switzerland. It is electrified at 3000 volts DC. Between Milan and Monza it has four tracks and is used not only by trains operating to an ...

. Like all but one of the other Milan suburban railway service routes, it is operated by

Trenord Trenord is a railway company which is responsible for the operation of regional passenger trains in Lombardy. The company was established by the two main railway companies in Lombardy, Trenitalia and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), to manage train oper ...

Route

Chiasso Chiasso (; lmo, Ciass ) is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. As the southernmost of Switzerland's municipalities, Chiasso is on the border with Italy, in front of Ponte Chiasso (a frazione of C ...

↔ Como San Giovanni ↔

Milano Porta Garibaldi Milano Porta Garibaldi is a major railway station in the Italian city of Milan, located just to the north of the neighbourhood known as ''Porta Garibaldi''. ''Porta Garibaldi'' is the city's main station for commuter traffic with 25 million passe ...

↔

Rho Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or ; el, ρο or el, ρω, label=none) is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 100. It is derived from Phoenician letter res . Its uppercase form uses the sa ...

Line S11, a

radial route A radial route is a public transport route linking a central point in a city or town, usually in the central business district (CBD), with a suburb (or satellite) of that city or town. Such a route can be operated by various forms of public tran ...

, heads initially in an southeasterly direction from

in Switzerland over the border to Como San Giovanni, and then south, to Camnago-Lentate. From there, it turns southeast towards

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...

, and finally southwest, to

. From 26 April 2015, has been extended to the station of

due to the start of Expo 2015 on 1 May 2015.

History

The route was activated on 14 December 2008, and was initially an hourly

regional rail Regional rail, also known as local trains and stopping trains, are passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities. These trains operate with more stops over shorter distances than inter-city rail, but fewer stops and faster serv ...

service between its two termini, although it was designated at Chiasso station as the S11. On 13 December 2009, the Italian part of the route was reclassified as the S11 suburban rail line. On 26 April 2015, has been extended to Rho.

Stations

The stations on the S11 are as follows (the stations with a coloured background are within the municipality of Milan):

Scheduling

, S11 trains ran hourly between 05:16 and 24:00 Monday to Saturday, with additional services during rush hour in the mornings and evenings.

References

External links

ATM
– official site
Trenord
– official site
Schematic of Line S11
–

schematic A schematic, or schematic diagram, is a designed representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures. A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the key information the sc ...

depicting all stations on Line S11 ''This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at November 2012.'' {{Urban rail transport in Milan Milan S Lines