A second station - of a different railway line, the Monza-Molteno-Lecco railway - is present in Arcore, located in Ca' Bianca-Buttafava area (Buttafava railway station,[5] of "S7"[6] line of Milan suburban railway service), with trains from and to Monza-Milano or Lecco, but running through a more long and slow way than the trains of the main Arcore station (across the brianza hills zone - Colli Briantei - instead than straight to Lecco through the most short way).

When the ticket office is closed, if self-service machine is out of service and no other kind of Trenord authorised resellers[7] is open around 200 meter from the station,[8] ticket can be purchased aboard of the train,[9] asking soon for this just when goin aboard to the "chief train" (Italian: CapoTreno);[10] otherwise you have to pay surcharge and/or mulct.

The most part of the tickets[11][12] require to be validated just some minutes before to go aboard the train, doing this by electronic machines validation (blue colored,[13] for small Magneto-Electronic SBME paper tickets[14]) or mechanics machine validation (yellow colored,[15] for the 5 kind of normal paper tickets: ATB Ticket, Trenord,[16] Lottomatica, Sisal and S.I.R.

[17]),[18] both located in the station (3 blue and 2 yellow); this will start the countdown for expiration of the ticket, by stamping current date, time, location/validation-machine-id on it, and in case also reading and recording information on magnetic data strip of SBME tickets.

The station offers interchange with bus, mainly to and from Monza, Oggiono, Vimercate.