Trains, Milan

-Train tikets reservtion it's better to collect it directly from station , it's cheeper than automatic machins or from net .
- cheep trians are : Intercity & EuroStar ,it need no reservation ,but Express need so it's higher cost .
- Night train from Milan to Naples @11.20pm
arrive Naples @9.30am , was a v.good in price as a sleeping train .its only E59, comparing with other schedualed in addition to save time .

Another great train station near Central Station (2km far).
In front of the station there is the BUS TERMINAL where you can find bus for the most important cities of Europe and Italy.
Under the station there is the underground station (GREEN LINE) and the other underground station for Malpensa's airport.
In the station there are a lot of shops, bar and three newspaper kiosks where you can buy the underground and city bus tickets.
The station is oriented from EAST to WEST.

This system may be tricky if you come from Asian countries or UK wherever. All you have to do before get on local train is "validation of the ticket" ! Let's look for the yellow machine and insert your ticket. Sometimes conductor checks the ticket on the train, sometimes not. Maybe 50-50?

The Stazione Centrale is maybe not the best part of town (homeless people loitering about the bus station and park in front) but the building itself is impressive. It was opened in 1931 and is 207 meter wide and 36 meter high so the entrance is quite spectacular. We took a train to and back from Venice. We bought 2nd class Eurostar tickets at the Stazione Centrale the day before departure for 41 ?. It was not really easy to understand which line to get into to buy the tickets but we got the tickets at least. You can also buy tickets buy using a credit card and a ticket machine but we went for the manual method :-) It was easy to find out which train to get on at the platforms and soon we were on the train making our way to the classical destination of Venezia.

Our friend Jay, who traveled with us this trip, worked for the now defucnt airline TWA. This was the third year he had given us the employee triple e passes for Christmas. But... this is first time we got stuck. The planes were full for at least three days they said. Time for plan B ( thanks to Janis ).

From Central station, you can catch train for every euroopean country.
Well organized.
Inside the station you can find also many shops.
If you are at the station, remember to turn on your head to watch the wonderful vaults!

Train and plane are the best way into Milan. Malpensa is the major international airport, it is located Northwest of the city and there are frequent buses and trains. The Malpensa Express is an inexpensive way into the city that stops at Cadorna where it is possible to transfer to a bus, taxi or Metro lines 1 and 2 (Red and Green). There are three train stations in Milan: Centrale which is the largest and handles most train traffic and almost all international trains. Garibaldi has local and some intraItaly mainly to the north (Como), and I never used Porta Genova, which largely services Genova and the Ligurian Coast.
Milan has great public transportation. The metro is simple but gets to most places, there are 3 lines, 1,2,3 or Red, Green and Yellow and runs from about 5:30am to 12:30am, although late at night you may have to wait up to 20-25 minutes for a train. In the hours when the metro is not running buses follow the route There are trams that go all over the city, some are new and some are old, but they cover many areas that are not within walking distance of the Metro. Buses make even more stops and blanket the city. All stops have a sign that indicates the what stop it is, where it is on the route, and if any Metro stops are near by; fairly accurate on time tables that are easy to understand are also located at all bus and most metro stops.

We begasn our journey in Stresa. We had a choice of three types of trains but chose this as the fastest. If you opt for the slower and cheaper ones you have to pay extra to use the more expensive! Cis Alpine demand pre-booking.

Few passengers occupy the carriages but we had noted how slow the booking office procedure was. Leaving booking to the day itself would seem to be something not to be done!

A lovely smooth ride around Lake Maggiore soon has us out of the rain and soon only in patchy cloud. It seems the weather is better away from the mountains.

And arrival in Milan is smooth!