Help for train timetable Milan to Rovigo

Won't work after 2, but if you can leave at 1:30 you would arrive at 3:30. There's also 2:30 that gets you there at 5:06 (I just chose a random date to look this up.)

Thank you both for these amazingly rapid replies! I feared that I was hoping for too much, but as it stands my long day trip on an Interrail pass starts at 6am and I am scheduled to arrive in Milan at 13:50. I will have to make some concession, and will study the situation now that the above is clear. (Unless you lend me your Ferrari, Tyrker!)

Rainbow, I'd jump on the 1:30 train Eric mentioned. Yes you'd have to leave 1/2 hour earlier than you want to but it gets you there in just 2 hours: a significantly shorter amount of time than most other options in the afternoon time frame.

(Oops: was typing as you were posting about your 13:50 arrival time in Milan.)

Thanks too, Kathy.

I think I have two choices. My trip starts in Geneva, and is complicated/prolonged by the fact that i would love to take the Centovallina again (the loveliest train ride I have ever experienced) between Domodossola and Locarno if the weather is fine.

If I give up on that (or the weather is horrible), the rest is easy with fast trains.

The other option is to leave Geneva at 05:39 (Switzerland being Switzerland, there is a bus to the station...). Starting 30 minutes earlier with this train actually gives me a whole hour's extra start from Domodossola. But my research (via Padova) still brings me to Rovigo at 17:23. I should be very grateful for detailed train times of this journey, as perhaps I have missed something.

Milano Centrale dep 13:30 Frecciarosa 9637 arr Bologna Centrale 14:32 change to IC 588 dep 14:47, arr Rovigo 15:30.
That is for a near term date, but then you have not told us your intended travel date.

Thank you Sam. In fact, I'll be travelling in the first days of September 2019, and I am still struggling to get to Milan in time for the 13:30 train.

Here is my itinerary:
Geneva (OK to leave at 05:39 if necessary) / Domodossola / Locarno / Bellinzona / Milan.

Is it too ambitious?

The itinerary is still showing on September 4

Thanks again. And thanks to you all for your rapid and helpful replies.

Just one last question, if I may, and sorry for being so insistent and appearing so slow. Could I have the detailed itinerary from Geneva to Milan, via Domodossola and Locarno, that allows me to catch the 13:30? I cannot get http://plan.rail.cc/ to give me an early morning start!

Thank you so much.

Ah, I had lost sight of that. But it doesn't offer me a train arriving in Milan before 13:50...

Then it is time to go to Plan B.

Right, I'm working on Plan B now!

After much thought, I realise that riding the Centovalli means more to me than the need to be in Rovigo, so I will leave Geneva at a decent hour and continue from Milan to a small town where I can sleep the first night. I am travelling on a tight budget and actually prefer to avoid the main centres of interest to tourists. I speak Italian and am happy to explore an unknown town, and some of my best travel experiences (in Thailand in the old days, for example) have come out of this philosophy. Any suggestions for an interesting destination in the Veneto region will be very welcome.