Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 1 is a railway station serving Terminal 1 of Milan–Malpensa Airport. It opened in 1999 as Malpensa Aeroporto, as the then western terminus of the Busto Arsizio–Malpensa Airport railway, and is managed by Ferrovienord.[1] In 2016, following the 3.4 kilometer railway extension to Terminal 2, the station was renamed Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 1.[2][3][4]
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| Location | Milan-Malpensa Airport Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°37′41″N 8°42′40″E / 45.62806°N 8.71111°E | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Ferrovienord | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Busto Arsizio–Malpensa line | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 May 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Train services
editThe train services are operated by Trenord and TILO and run on a clock-face schedule:
- Trenord Malpensa Express:[5] Malpensa Airport T2-Malpensa Airport T1-Saronno-Milan Cadorna/Milan Centrale, with quarter-hourly frequency (2 trains per hour to Cadorna, 2 to Centrale)
- TILO S50:[6] Malpensa Airport T2-Malpensa Airport T1-Gallarate-Varese-Mendrisio-Lugano-Bellinzona, with hourly frequency[7]
References
edit- ^ Malpensa Express to open next month Railway Gazette International April 1999
- ^ Malpensa Terminal 2 rail link contract awarded Railway Gazette International 10 September 2014
- ^ Malpensa extends railway line to easyJet's Terminal 2 Italy 24 16 December 2016
- ^ "Malpensa airport branch opens" Today's Railways Europe issue 254 February 2017 page 14
- ^ "Malpensa Express: Official Site". www.malpensaexpress.it. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ "TILO - S50 Bellinzona–Lugano–Varese–Malpensa". www.tilo.ch. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ "Dal Ticino fino a Malpensa ogni ora e senza cambiare treno". Ticinonline (in Italian). 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
External links
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