The line S7 ( it, Linea S7) is a

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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

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, Italy. The route runs over the infrastructure of the Milan–Monza and the Monza–Molteno railways, and the section from Molteno to

Lecco Lecco (, , ; lmo, label= Lecchese, Lècch ) is a city of 48,131 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch is named ''Branch of Lecco'' / ''Ramo di Lecco''). ...

, opened on 20 November 1888, of the

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. In the section from Molteno to Lecco it is also present another regional service train connecting

Como Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label= Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps h ...

and Lecco. Like all 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 ope ...

Route

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 ...

↔ Molteno ↔

Line S7, a

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, heads initially in an northeasterly direction from

to Monza. From there, after

Villasanta Villasanta (''La Santa'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan. Villasanta borders the following municipalities: Arcore, Biassono Biassono ( Brian ...

it turns north-west - away from the main railway to Lecco/ Bergamo - and then, after Carate, turns north-east to Lecco. The travel takes 1h39'.

History

The route was activated on 14 December 2014, substituting the former R19 regional service. It is the sole line of the suburban service which runs on a section with a single track without electrification, so it is the sole line with a single ride per hour.

Stations

The stations on the S7 are as follows (stations with a coloured background are within the municipality of Milan):

References

External links

ATM
– official site
Trenord
– official site
Schematic of Line S7
–

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depicting all stations on Line S7 {{Urban rail transport in Milan Milan S Lines 2014 establishments in Italy Railway lines opened in 2014