Designs and Plans
The documents sometimes offer up intriguing elements, which is why certain details they contain are impossible to forget: the common names for the tracks, the structure of the rails, the plans that show the station as it was originally with some striking features, such as the tram terminus at the beginning of last century.
Gallery
Plan of Milano Nord station in 1883: the two customs houses in front of the passenger building can clearly be seen 
Technical terms for the individual parts of the points 
Plan of the tracks at Ferrovie Nord’s first station in Milan in what was then known as Piazza Castello (c. 1880) 
Diagram of simple and slip points 
Plan of the Milano Nord Cadorna rail yard with the names of the tracks, a custom dating back to the early years of service: these names echoed from the loudspeaker located at the shed at the start of the Via Pagano shunting yard.