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Madignano railway station

Coordinates: 45°20′37″N 9°43′50″E / 45.34361°N 9.73056°E / 45.34361; 9.73056
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Madignano
Railway Station
General information
LocationItaly
Coordinates45°20′37″N 9°43′50″E / 45.34361°N 9.73056°E / 45.34361; 9.73056
Owned byRete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated byTrenord
Line(s)Treviglio–Cremona
Platforms1
Other information
ClassificationBronze[1]
History
Opened15 September 1996; 28 years ago (1996-09-15)
Location
Madignano is located in Lombardy
Madignano
Madignano
Location in Lombardy
Madignano is located in Northern Italy
Madignano
Madignano
Location in Northern Italy
Madignano is located in Italy
Madignano
Madignano
Location in Italy

Madignano railway station is a railway station serving the town and comune of Madignano in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. The single-platform halt is located on the Treviglio–Cremona railway.

History

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When the Treviglio–Cremona line was being constructed in the early 1860s, among the approximately 50 municipalities whose territories would have been affected by the infrastructure, only four assumed a hostile attitude to the development. Among these was Madignano, which had just suffered heavy burdens from the construction of an oratory (already abandoned by 1856) and a new road to neighboring Castelleone.[2] The railway nevertheless reached the comune in 1862 without any station being built.[3]

A railway halt was proposed by the municipal administration in 1993, with feasibility studies beginning that year.[4] While there was initially some controversy in planning the new station with Italy's national railway holding company Ferrovie dello Stato, the comune was eventually granted a definitive construction permit at the end of 1995. The official inauguration took place on September 15, 1996,[5] with the use of a historic train formed by an FS Class 740 steam locomotive with tender and three vintage carriages.

Train services

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The station is served by the following services:[6]

  • Regional services (Treno regionale) Treviglio - Cremona
Preceding station   Trenord   Following station
toward Treviglio
Treno regionale
toward Cremona

References

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  1. ^ List of Italian stations and categories Archived 2015-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Carlo Donato De' Conti (1856). Ronchetti (ed.). Il tronco di strada ferrata da Crema a Treviglio (in Italian).
  3. ^ Francesco Piantelli (1951). Ed. Vinci (ed.). Folclore Cremasco (in Italian).
  4. ^ "Un treno per Madignano. Il progetto della banchina". La Provincia" (in Italian). 13 February 1993.
  5. ^ Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie, ed. (1996). Fermata con vapore. Vol. anno XVII. Salò. p. 8. ISSN 0392-4602.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ "Trenord Treviglio-Cremona Services" (PDF). Retrieved 31 July 2024.