Stopping along the way with Italo train in Italy

Hi, welcome to the forum -
No, you can't use your ticket to leave the Italo train at one of the stops and take another one onward later. Your train, carriage and seats are assigned and specific so your ticket isn't "hop on/hop off". You'd have to purchase new tickets at whichever city you disembarked at before Venice.

But another comment? Via a top-line browse of some random dates, I'm not seeing any Italo trains that travel Milan>Venice with a stop in Bologna. That city is quite a bit south of the others so it wouldn't make sense for it to be included on this particular journey. I'm curious which date and departure time you're seeing this stop?

Unless i'm missing something, the stops I'm seeing for this route are:
Brescia
Desenzano
Verona Porta Nuova
Vicenza
Padua
Venezia Mestre
Venezia S.Lucia (Venice

Maybe Bologna is a typo for Verona?

Kathy is correct.

Your train reservation is for that seat on that train. Once you voluntarily abandon your seat they are under no obligation to find a you new seat on a new train. What seat would you sit in when you got back on board?

If you want to break up your trip you would need to schedule that by buying two separate tickets either ahead of time or buying one and the buying a second half back at the train station after you're done.

Better to ask before you try it, but this will not work out for you,
=Tod

Are you looking at the actual Italo website?
You will get the most accurate information from that.
Sometimes third party re-sellers have bizarre routes listed.....

Putting in a random date for Trenitalia services, not Italo, I do see a journey that is more than twice the price and twice the travel time, that goes via Bologna and Padua.
Strange, but it's there.

When Italo first got started, they did not have track rights on the Milan-Venice line, so they sold tickets with a connection in Bologna. But that was a while ago, and unless there is a maintenance shut down on the line, they run direct Milan to Venice. If I remember rightly, the line was shutdown for maintenance/upgrade for a time last summer.

Hello jrobertogc, and welcome to the forum,

I didn't notice that this was your first post to the forum earlier. I'm not sure from your post or your profile how much experience you have with Italian trains so here's some general Italian train information.

There are two train companies in Italy - the state run Trenitalia and the private run .Italo that only runs fast trains between big cities.
https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html (Use Italian names for cities - Firenze for Florence and Roma for Rome - for best results)
https://www.italotreno.com/en

Local regionale trains have one price that never changes and can't sell out so there's no reason to buy them until you need them.
Fast trains have reserved seating, multiple classes and you can buy tickets ahead of time at a (sometimes significant) discount trading flexibility for price.
Edit: Both companies have apps that let you buy and store tickets as well check trains in motion. I recommend getting at least the Trenitalia one if not both.

A great resource for train travel in general is here: https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-italy.htm

Sorry if this is old hat to you but thought this might help out.

Have a great trip,
=Tod