Poland - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
Introduction
PKP now releases two different sets of PDFs, an all year, plus part year based on shorter periods. These are usually from December until the first Timetable "adjustment" date in Mid March, March until mid June, June until late August, August until the start of November, and finally until the next annual timetable date in December. The exact dates for each year will be listed in the Introduction for each "Region" as linked below. Even so travellers are strongly advised to check the Journey Planners for ALL Unusual lines timings as revised PDFs are issued on a regular, often weekly, basis in-between those dates.
In 2016 a number of one off specials were included in the full year PDFs but this has not occurred since. These were mainly excursions run by Turkol, many including freight only track which will not be EGTRE Unusual Line entries. Anyone interested in travelling PKP freight lines is strongly advised to become familiar with the Turkol website as recent examples have included trips to Czarnkow, Sokolów Podlaski, Sierpc to Brodnica and Lewki to Hajnowka the year before it re-opened to passengers.
There are usually special services via unusual routes run by PKP-PR for the Woodstock Festival Poland (Przystanek Woodstock), the largest Free annual music festival in Europe near Kostrzyn attended by over 600,000 people in early August. Note normal PKP tickets are not valid, these trains require special tickets. No Festival in 2020 and details of the 2019 services appeared only when the June PDFs were released.
Standard abbreviations used are explained in General Information. Map references to pages in the "Mały Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2011", ISBN 978-83-931006-3-7, published by Wydawnictwo Eurosprinter, are shown in italics eg R14.
For details of recent and near future route openings and closures, please refer to Poland - General Information.
List of Regions
South East Timetables 100 - 199 | entries starting with 'PLxx/100' |
South West Timetables 200 - 299 | entries starting with 'PLxx/200' |
North West Timetables 300 - 399 | entries starting with 'PLxx/300' |
North (Central) Timetables 400 - 499 | entries starting with 'PLxx/400' |
North East Timetables 500 - 599 | entries starting with 'PLxx/500' |
Warsaw Area Timetables 600 - 650 | entries starting with 'PLxx/600' |
Corridor Trains
The following sections of line within Poland can be ridden only in the through (corridor) trains of neighbouring administrations:
- (Hagenwerder [Germany] -) Hagenwerder Grenze (frontier) - Krzewina Zgorzelecka - Trzciniec frontier and Trzciniec frontier - Hirschfelde Grenze (frontier) (- Hirschfelde [Germany]) (36A2). There is a 200m stretch of line in Germany between the two frontiers at Trzciniec. The line is operated only by ODEG trains on the Zittau - Görlitz - Cottbus route (former DB table 220).
- (Zittau [Germany] -) frontier - frontier (- Hrádek nad Nisou [Czech Republic]) (36A2): ČD table 089. There are no stations in Poland on this line.
- Głuchołazy - frontier (- Jindřichov ve Slezsku [Czech Republic]) (37A1): Through Krnov – Jesenik trains on ČD table 292 use PKP tracks in and out of Głuchołazy as there is no triangle here and the approximately 13km of PKP tracks east of Głuchołazy are only traversed by ČD services. From 10 December 2006 ČD services call to set down and pick up at Głuchołazy.
Trams
See Poland - Tram services over obscure routes
Other sparse services
The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than three trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run each weekday.
115 | Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski - Sandomierz | |
122 | Przemyśl - Medyka | |
123 | Jarosław - Horyniec-Zdrój | |
123 | Horyniec-Zdrój - Hrebenne (- Zamosc) | May Day Bank Holidays & Summer SSuO only |
130 | Muszyna - Plaveč[ZSR] | Summer weekends |
131 | Żagorz - Jasło - Żagorz | |
131 | Sanok - Uherce - Żagorz | Summer weekends |
131a | Gorlice Zagórzany - Gorlice | FSSuO |
134 | Żagorz - Łupków - Medzilaborce | Summer weekends |
137 | Sucha Beskidzka - Żywiec | |
141 | Skawina - Oświęcim | |
150 | Oświęcim - Czechowice-Dziedzice | |
156 | Leszczyny - Gliwice | |
203 | Nowy Świętów - Głuchołazy Miasto | SSuO |
215 | Opole Glówne – Biskupice Olawskie – Jelcz Laskowice | SSuX |
235 | Nysa - Kamieniec Ząbkowicki | |
240 | (Wałbrzych Główny -) Boguszów-Gorce Wschód - Mezimesti [CD} | Summer SSuO |
270 | Żary - Forst [DB] | |
322 | Kępno – Wielun Dąbrowa | |
382 | Mścice – Mielno Koszaliński | Summer only |
410 | Toruń Wschodni – Sierpc | |
424 | Wierzchuchin – Lipowa Tucholska – Slachta | |
429 | Laskowice Pomorskie – Szlachta | |
440 | Chojnice – Kościerzyna | |
451 | Łeba - Lębork | Summer only |
503 | Gutkowo - Braniewo | Originally bustituted for engineering works but since March 2020, no trains, nor buses and no re-opening date |
520 | Szymany Lotnisko - Szczytno | |
530 | Kuźnica Białostocka - Grodno [Belarus] | |
534 | Białostock - Waliły | Summer only |
537 | Suwałki – Šeštokai (LG) | |
541 | Hajnówka - Siemianówka | |
550 | Chelm – Jagodin (UŽ) | |
551a | Łuków - Parczew Kolejowa | |
554 | Zamość Wschód – Hrubieszów Miasto | |
556 | Zwierzyniec – Stalowa Wola Rozwadów | |
557 | Zwierzyniec - Hrebenne (- Horyniec-Zdrój) | Summer only |
Deletions since last edition
Sparse service deleted (due to increased frequency):
Sparse services deleted (no service):
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