The story
The company was founded as Ferrovie Nord Milano Trasporti S.r.l. on 1 January 2004, to take over the business on the passenger division of the company Ferrovie Nord Milano Esercizio SpA (now known as FERROVIENORD). On 12 December 2004, it started operating part of the servizio ferroviario suburbano di Milano. Specifically, it took over operation of the suburban lines S1, S2, S3, S4 and S10.
On 15 May 2006, following the redefinition of the corporate identity of the FNM Group, the company changed its name to LeNORD.
On 18 September 2009, under new agreements with Trenitalia and the Region of Lombardy, the company started the procedure to lease out its line of business to the railway company Trenitalia LeNORD (TLN), established in August 2008. For six years, the new company will be tasked to provide regional services on all lines in Lombardy, at both state and regional level. From 15 November 2009, regional passenger services operated by LeNORD were run on behalf of TLN.
Since 13 December 2009, LeNORD has been operating direct long-distance day EuroCity services between Germany, Austria and Italy, in association with the Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) and Deutsche Bahn (DB). The night service long distance EuroNight remains the responsibility of the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS).
On 3 May 2011 LeNord stopped its activity and its operations was moved to Trenord.
From Wikipedia’s article on LeNORD, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3