Poland - General Information

Country Name

Poland (Polska)

State railway system

Polskie Koleje Panstwowe SA (PKP) is the controlling entity for the PKP Group.

National Railway Operator

PKP Intercity is responsible for long-distance passenger transport.

Przewozy Regionalne, formerly PKP Przewozy Regionalne, is responsible for local (Regio) and InterRegio services and also InterRegioBus. Przewozy Regionalne was a wholly owned subsidiary of the PKP Group until 22 December 2008 when the shares were transferred to the 16 regional governments. However this changed from 21 September 2015 when the Government's Treasury’s industrial development and restructuring agency Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu acquired a 51% stake with the 16 Voivodships retaining 49%. The government intention with one majority shareholder is to improve management of PR, resolving different policies within the 16 regional authorities where some established their own local train operating companies or their own tenders for the provision of services.

Infrastructure Authority

PKP, Polskie Linie Kolejowe is responsible for infrastructure maintenance and timetabling.

Language

Polish.

Currency

Złoty.

UIC code

numeric 51; alpha PL.

Timetable

Journey Planner

http://rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en or Private alternative http://rozklad.sitkol.pl/bin/query.exe/en? as the Official English version is sometimes not visible!

Downloadable Timetable

The full set of PDF's can be downloaded both for the reduced current timetable period or full year from the PKP website Portalpasazera page by selecting the required date option from the section named Pełny rozkład jazdy w formie tablic do pobrania

The last printed Timetable was for 2011/12, and in 2012/13 there was not even access to any website PDF’s either. Following on-line petitions etc PDF's were made available from 2013/14 with access via the Sieciowy Rozkład Jazdy Pociągów page. Enter the Table number [Note: some have altered] in section Wyszukiwanie według tablicy. It should load the Destinations served. Click on the chevron to the left of the place names for a prompt to either view or download various by date option PDF’s.

Additionally individual operators and PKP Inter City publish PDFs, plus the Przewozy Regionalne website groups information Region by Region. Links are

By Operator

Intercity: PKP Intercity Rozkład jazdy

International: Rozkład Jazdy Pociągów Międzynarodowych

Przewozy Regionalne: Przewozy Regionalne

Click on map for Region of Departure and select Liniowe rozkłady jazdy. Note that in many cases the PDFs suggest services terminate at Regional Boundaries which is not the case. They offer a link to some but not all local operators

Other Operators: See Other Railways for details of other operators. It has been known for some to be omitted from the Inni przewoźnicy pasażerscy (Other passenger operators) page which may be on Sinfin railways of Poland, which supposedly links to all passenger, freight, operational Narrow Gauge, Metro and Trams in Poland.

Helpful new options from 2012/13 are an individual station query facility on Plakaty rozkładu jazdy, which download station arrival/departure sheets including booked arrival or departure platforms [Peron] assisting where alternative routes are available, or a search for the route of an individual service on Infopasazer.This lists all trains booked to call at a nominated station and by drilling down into a train number it gives all calling points for that journey which can confirm use of diversions. Note when first on-line that this also showed timing points for junctions etc but this is no longer shown plus you need to type in accented letters or else nothing is found.

Printed Timetable

None, see above paragraph.

Additional Notes on reading the Timetable

(A)	Working days except Saturdays i.e. SSuX
(B)	daily except Saturdays, i.e. SX
(C)	Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, i.e. SSuO
(D)	Mondays to Fridays except holidays, i.e. SSuX
(E)	Mondays to Saturdays except holidays, i.e. SuX
(F)	runs when advertised or required
(G)	runs until further notice
"I" in the middle of the train column	the train passes through this station without stopping
"<" in the middle of the train column	the train does not pass through that station but instead takes a different route
Codziennie	Daily
Do	until or to
do odwołania	until further notice
autobusowa komunikacja zastępcza	Bus replacement (also has z against station timing)
autobus szynowy	Railcar [i.e. a train]
Gł., Główny	main station
I	And
Kursuje	Runs
Od	from or since
Oprocz	Except
Oraz	As well as
p (przyjad)	Arrive
po, z, ze	from or after
po ogłoszeniu	[from] when advertised
p.odg. (posterunek odgałęzny)	junction
Poza tym	Besides
Przez	Via
Swiat	Holidays
W	On
Wąsk. (wąskotorowa)	narrow gauge
Na odcinku ……. ruch pociagów zawieszony do odwołania	On the section…. no scheduled trains until further notice

Engineering Information

www.przewozyregionalne.pl/w-regionach.html. Drill into the part of the country wanted and then select “Aktualności”.

Bus Information

The Rozkład jazdy autobusów PKS website offers a number of options including:

• Ogólny rozkład jazdy autobusów PKS (Bus journey planner)
• Rozkład jazdy autobusów PKS według miast (Bus information by city)
• Rozkład jazdy komunikacji miejskiej według miast (Links to transport authority sites by city)

or the following from the ZTM Warsaw website which gives links to Operators in the majority of towns in Poland

Maps

Printed Maps

• The "Mały Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2011” * is a soft backed very detailed 1:300000 map comprising 102 pages and with notes in Polish, English and German published by Wydawnictwo Eurosprinter (ISBN 978-83-931006-3-7). The unusual lines and future changes sections include references to pages in this atlas e.g. M2011-R14. * A 2014 updated edition is available but it is believed so far only in Hardback.
• European Railway Atlas by M.G. Ball (2008 onwards)
• The now discontinued PKP timetable was accompanied by a separate map with enlargements of Warszawa and Katowice. It distinguished electrified, narrow-gauge and broad-gauge lines but some lines and curves with no service for a number of years were still shown.

Web-based Maps

• a countrywide but with zoom facility on-line map unfortunately without line numbers but shows current status, plus detail such as electrication and single/double track etc
• Thorsten Büker's Map of Poland
• Maps and Plans - Poland
• On PKP Website but can take a while to load. PKP

Ticketing

PKP offers a number of network tickets which offer good value, although travellers need to take care differentiating between not only PKP Inter City and Przewozy Regionalne (regional) services but even different types of regional service. A particularly valuable guide is the "Rail Pass Guide Continental Europe" published annually by "Today's Railways" magazine. The Polrail travel website provides useful background information in English. The Świat Podróży Kolejowych website provides useful information in Polish, including:

• Passenger train operators > 2. PRZEWOŹNICY KOLEJOWI
• Types of train > 3. KATEGORIE POCIĄGÓW
• Special offers (network tickets) > 5. OFERTY PROMOCYJNE

Prospective travellers should be aware that some regional operators may accept only their own tickets and should check beforehand. The "Rail Pass Guide Continental Europe" shows which regions accept PKP network tickets. None of them accepts ordinary (non-network) PKP tickets.

• The following operators normally accept PKP network tickets: Arriva RP, KD, KS, KW.
• The following operators do not normally accept PKP network tickets: KM, SKM Warszawie, WKD, SKM Trójmieście.

See Other Railways for details of these operators.

If the boarding station is not staffed or has no machines, it should be possible to buy a ticket on the train and passengers should go immediately to the front of the train where the guard will be located. An additional fee may be charged if they come round the train to find you!

The Koleje Mazowieckie website (the area round Warsaw) gives details of useful network type tickets. However, care should be taken to distinguish between Koleje Mazowieckie (KM) and Szybka Kolej Miejska w Warszawie (SKM) services as they only accept each other's tickets on certain routes, for example between central Warsaw and Warsaw Chopin Airport. ZTM (Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego), the Warsaw Transport Authority, has a useful map showing the tariff zone boundaries in the metropolitan area indicating where KM, SKM Warszawie, WKD have some limited inter-availibility, plus details of daily or weekly zonal tickets covering all but main line and PR services. Additionally KM tickets are accepted by WKD under some conditions; see Honouring of Tickets.

Some major stations are equipped with machines offering an extensive range of tickets (including some network tickets), which accept coins, notes and credit and debit cards. However, many stations have no ticket machines and even major ones only a few and not for all operators, Warszawa Centralna being the classic example where there are no SKM or KM machines. Ticket windows are the norm, often with separate windows for PKP Inter City and Regional services. Queues can be long, especially at peak times, and ample time should be allowed to buy tickets.

Gauge

The main line network is Standard. In addition 394 km of a 1520mm gauge freight-only "Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa" (Broad-Gauge Steel Line) between Sławków near Katowice and Vladimir in Ukraine is in Poland but this is not shown on any timetable map. The LHS has a separate website lhs.pl which includes interactive maps and photographs, was formerly part of PKP and known as the "Steel and Sulphur Railway". A suggested extension into the Czech Republic is mentioned from time to time but at present would not appear to be going ahead. Other broad gauge tracks cross into Poland on routes from the Ukraine, Belarus and Kaliningrad.

Electrification

Main line electrification is 3 kV dc.

Rule of the road

Right.

Other Railways

The last PKP operated Narrow Gauge scheduled passenger trains ran in July 2001 with a private Company SKPL, [Stowarzyszenie Kolejowych Przewozów Lokalnych] SSuX [except school holidays] service lasting until 7 December 2012 on a 4km part of ex PKP line 317 from Pleszew PKP to Pleszew Miasto. The branch is actually dual gauge and Standard gauge freight traffic has continued, and surprisingly SKPL announced that a full scale passenger service would resume on 4 May 2015 with 7 trains Monday to Friday and four at weekends SKPL and this continues into 2015/16.

The DB subsidiary Usedomer Bäderbahn opened a 1.5 km extension from Seebad Ahlbeck Grenze to Świnoujście Centrum in Poland on 20 September 2008. Built mainly on a reinstated formation, there are plans to extend back into Germany to Garz Airport. There will be no physical connection to the PKP network which is on the opposite side of the River Odra.

See Gauge for details of the "Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa" (Broad-Gauge Steel Line).

Private operators have franchises to work a number of local passenger services over PKP lines:

• KM Koleje Mazowieckie KM operates local services in Mazowieckie, the area round Warszawa.
• SKM Szybka Kolej Miejska w Warszawie operates local services in the Warsaw conurbation, including services to Warsaw Frederic Chopin airport.
• WKD Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa operates self contained local services from Warszawa Śródmieście to Grodzisk Mazowiecki Radońska and Milanówek Grudów.
• SKM Szybka Kolej Miejska w Trójmieście (Three Cities) operates local services in the Gdansk/Gdynia conurbation, including regional services between Gdynia and Slupsk, as well as some trains to Tczew and Malbork.
• Arriva RP Arriva operates local services in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province and partly in the Pomorskie and Mazowieckie provinces, based around Bydgoszcz, Toruń and Grudziądz.
• KD Koleje Dolnośląskie operates local services in Lower Silesia, the region around Wrocław.
• KS Koleje Śląskie operates local services in Silesia, the region around Katowice.
• KW Koleje Wielkopolskie operates local services in Wielkopolskie, the region around Poznań.

Tourist Lines

A number of ex PKP narrow gauge lines, and also ex Forestry Railways such at Cisna, Czarna Białostocka, Hajnowka and Płociczno offer tourist or charter services.

The current status of narrow gauge lines in Poland can be ascertained using the interactive map at:-

Narrow Rail Poland

Rail cycling is possible on a number of lines; see the IG Draisinenfahrten website. Click on 'International', followed by 'Draisinenlinks' to obtain website details under the heading 'Draisinenstrecken in Polen (PL)'.

Any further information on tourist line operations would be welcomed.

Metro

Warszawa. Two extensions opened in 2008, from Marymont to Słodowiec on 23 April, and onwards to Młociny on 27 October so Line 1 is now 23km long. The first seven station section of East - West Line 2 from Rondo Daszyńskiego [passing under the Vistula river between Powiśle and Stadion stations] to Dworzec Wileński opened on 8 March 2015. Line 2 will be extended at both ends with two branches on the east-side of the city with possibly a third short line to the south-east inner suburbs later.

Trams

Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Gorzów, Grudziądz, Katowice area [no longer including Gliwice as this part of the system was closed on 31 August 2009], Kraków, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Szczecin, Toruń, Warszawa, Wrocław.

Some links are available on the Sinfin.net site.

See also Tram services over obscure routes - Poland

Recent and future changes

Future Changes

• Press reports suggest approximately 8km of ex 520 south from Szczytno plus a direct facing and 1.6km new line to the revamped Olsztyn Regional Airport opens in 2016. The Szczytno on-line station departure sheets suggest two pairs Tuesday – Saturday and one pair Sundays start running to Szymany Lotnisko on 21 January 2016
• 160/152 The reopening of the Bohumin - Chałupki cross border line with three pairs of IC's, two reversing in Bohumin, the third running via the Bohumin Avoiding curve was planned for December 2015 but has been delayed as level crossing related signalling work on the line from Chałupki via Wodzislaw Slaski to Rybnik, [which would also regain local services] is not completed. The suggested opening date is 18 January 2016
• 122 The suggested December 2015 introduction of a daytime Ukrainian operated Broad Gauge EMU pair from L’vov – Przemyśl is deferred
• 355 Summer 2016 PDF shows an overnight pair booked via the Rzepin avoiding line
• 424/440 Summer 2016 PDF shows a day and overnight pair booked via the line from Lipowa Tucholska via Bąk to Kościerzyna
• 530/M2 Two IC services each way between Warsaw and Grodno (Belarus) via the Kuznica Bialystocka border crossing, with a connection to Minsk, were planned for introduction from the December 2015 timetable change but have been deferred.
• 537 The December 2015 IC timetable PDF shows services resuming north from Suwalki to Mockawa in Lithuania with a LDZ connection onwards to Kaunas but this has been deferred. It is suggested but not confirmed this LDZ service would be using the completed Rail Balticka standard gauge line so as LDZ have no SG stock it would probably be worked by a PKP DMU as they are known to have reached Kaunas in 2015.

• The line from Łódź Widzew to, and the new underground station at Łódź Fabryczna may open in August 2016. Tunnelling onwards towards Lodz Kaliska has yet to commence.

• 151: It has been suggested the Tychy Lodowisko service may be extended 8 km to Bierun Stary to assist car plant workers with their commuting.

• A Kraków Plasów avoiding curve is to be built allowing direct access from Kraków Glówny towards Zakopane. Further south, a small amount of work has started on the Sucha Beskidzka avoiding curve.

• Improvements are planned to the 5.6 km freight branch serving Warsaw Modlin Airport in order to provide a passenger service. However, no work was visible at the main line junction in September 2015. Originally planned to include a new 1.5 km underground section and station at the Terminal, it is believed this will now be replaced by a ground level station close to the Airport.

• Tenders have been issued for re-instatement of line 182 from Tarnowskie Góry to Katowice {Pyrzowice] Airport, and a suggestion of a 5 km branch serving Rzeszow Airport, leading off Table 126.

• There is a serious proposal to re-open and re-electrify line 28, the 3 km branch from Weiliszew to Zegrze, to be served by extension of the SKM service from Warsaw to Legionowo.

Changes with the Timetable Period commencing 13 December 2015

Re-openings

• 115 Grebów – Sandomierz – Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
• 131 Stróze – Jaslo
• 134 Zagorz - Komancza [2 days a week and not all year] Some occasional services were believed to have been timetabled in Summer 2015
• 141 Local services resume between Oswięcim – Skawina – [Krakow]
• 147 Cieszyn - Cesky Tesin [CD]
• 175/180 Curve from Herby Nowe to podg Kalina – {Tarnowskie Gory]
• 260 Cross border services between Zgorzelec and Gorlitz in Germany, previously withdrawn on 1 March 2015

Closures

• 113 The two services from Tomaszów Mazowiecki towards Radom were withdrawn so the section from Tomaszów Mazowiecki to podg Zapowiedz [incorrectly shown on Quail as podg Anielin] is now only used by TLK's to/from the CMK, the section onwards to Drzewica now has no service
• 137 Zywiec – Sucha Beskidzka
• 166 Gliwice – Bytom [except for one TLK booked to use it between 15 February to 8 March 2016]
• 550 All local services withdrawn between Chelm and Dorohusk so only now used by the overnight Warszawa - Kiev at 23:10 eastbound and 05:27 westbound respectively
• 602 Bednary – Lowicz Przedmiestie

Changes during the Timetable Period commencing 15 December 2014

• 135 An 8.6km realignment to the north of Sucha Besidska between Stryszow – Zembrzyce opened with the old formation being required for a Reservoir opened 15 December 2014
• 240/260/265 Engineering work to the west of Wrocław Głowny from 26 April 2015 resulted in numerous diversions via freight only tracks until 16 October 2015.
• 442 The new service to Gdańsk Airport opened on 1 September 2015. This involved reinstatement of an old formation from Gdańsk Wrzeszcz plus a new flyover used by through services from Gdańsk Głowny and some terminating services together with new construction near the airport itself, continuing to a triangular junction at Rębiechowo with the Koscierzyna - Gdynia line.
• 443: A service between Gdansk Wrzeszcz and Kartuzy via the Rebiechowo south curve and a 12km reopened section of line 229 commenced on 1 October 2015. There was also 1 pair of services via Sominino [reverse] SSuX in the PDF but this allegedly was cancelled before ever running
• Kraków Balice [Airport] branch services (T142) recommenced on 28 September 2015 after being suspended since 1 February 2014 whilst the line was electrified. It was thought the branch was being extended 500m nearer the Terminal Building on an existing freight branch but in fact it is a new deviation before the previous station location to the new station behind the multi-storey car park across the road from the terminal building. In addition trains from Krakow Glowny after leaving Krakow Lobzow take an existing chord up to the Line 95 flyover over the Katowice main line to run parallel to the main line on the most southerly double then single track(s) up to the airport line junction. Trains to Krakow Glowny don't take this flyover but descend to Krakow Lobzow using a newly-built chord.

Re-openings

• 114 The 8.5km branch from Tomaszów Mazowiecki to Spała had three pairs of Sunday only trains between 5 July and 30 August 2015. These were the first scheduled passenger services on the branch since 1988
• 554 3.4km reopening on the closed line to Hrubieszów from the existing Zamość station to Zamość Wschod with an intermediate station at Zamość Starówka opened on 14 June 2015
• 317 A regular passenger service resumed on the Narrow Gauge Line from Pleszew PKP to Pleszew Miasto on 4 May 2015. Timetable at SKPL
• 116/121 podg. Przeworsk Zach. – Przeworsk Gorliczyna (Short term summer use ended but then engineering work diversions resumed from 14 September until 16 October 2015)
• 131 Jasło – Zagorz (upgrade finished)
• 149 Oświęcim – Mysłowice (upgrade finished)
• 203 Nowy Świętow – Głuchołazy Miasto [Weekends and Holidays]
• 250 Lwowek Śl – Zebrzydowa [1 pair Weekends and Holidays]
• 255 Węgliniec - Lubań Słąski

The PKP fleet of Pendelinos entered service on Premium IC services from this date. The Warsaw - Wroclaw service now runs via the CMK &

• 100/109 Włoszczowa Płn. – Żelisławice and
• 109/175 podg. Kucelinka – Częstochowa Stradom; (Częstochowa Stradom -) Lubliniec - Fosowskie (- Opole) after upgrading.

• Arriva had planned to serve Nowy Dwór Gdanski again but an inspection found rails missing so did not run

Closures

All IR services were withdrawn after 31 August 2015 as uneconomic. For track coverage, only the Nedza avoiding curve between lines 154/160 and the direct line from Sumina - Rybnik would have lost all service but a new TLK service was introduced in its stead.

• 109 Kielce avoider from an unknown date after use by the Westbound only "Vlatava"
• former 136 (Chabówka -) Kasina Wielka - Marcinkowice (- Nowy Sącz): this line was used in summer 2016 by special trains of the Małopolskie Szlaki Turystyki Kolejowej. However, following an inspection by a PKP diagnostic train, the line was closed to traffic in September 2015. A consortium of interested parties hopes to reopen the line in 2016.
• 166 Gliwice – Bytom [one pair of TLK's on one day a week resumed using this line in Summer 2015)
• 173/315 podg. Wyczerpy – Chorzew Ziemkowice – podg. Borysławice (last train 15 November 2014)
• 260 All Dresden - Wrocław services were withdrawn so no service cross border from Zgorzelec to Görlitz from 1 March 2015
• 315/430 Inowroclaw avoider [overnight use believed to have resumed in Summer 2015)

Changes during the Timetable Period commencing 15 December 2013

• Part 230 Polanica Zdroj - Kudowa Zdrój reopened although there are periods when services are bustituted.
• 365 when Pila to Kalisz Pomorski reopened, the short branch to Kalisz Pomorski Miasto closed
• 421 Summer weekend [Torun] - Aleksandrów Kujawski - Ciechocinek service
• 552 Summer weekend Chełm – Włodawa services resumed
• 602 Łódź Widzew – Zgierz Passenger service resumed 1st September 2014
• 832 Bohumín ČD - Chałupki PKP withdrawn
• 335 Rzepin - Międzyrzecz withdrawn
• 537 Suwałki - Šeštokai [LT] was bustituted to allow quicker construction of the Rail Balticka freight corridor

Changes during 2012/13 Timetable Period

• The Szczecin Goleniow Airport branch opened on 9 June 2013. It comprises 4.34 km of new track with a triangular junction with line 375:- line 464: P odg. Mosty - Port Lotniczy (3.867 km) and line 465: P.odg. Mosty R1 - P odg. Mosty R2 (0.473 km).

• A new 2.625 km long curve connecting line 355 from Zielona Góra with line 333 to Zbaszynek opened on 9 June 2013. Direct services between Zielona Gora and Poznan no longer need to reverse at Czerwiensk. Some local services still run via Czerwiensk
• Part 112 [Kielce] Sitkówka Nowiny - Staszów - Ocice, weekly pair withdrawn 1 September 2013.
• 166 Gliwice - Bytom local services resumed once more on 1 February 2013 but ceased again on 1 June 2013, leaving only the very limited IR and overnight TLK pair running via this route
• Part 230 Kłodsko Miasto to Polanica Zdroj opened on 9 June 2013 [see above for the remainder of the branch to Kudowa Zdrój]
• Part 315 Herby Nowe - Kłobuck passenger use resumed but ended on 31 May 2013
• Part 321 Gniezno - Wrzesnia - Jarocin: temporary restoration of a two pair weekdays train service between 13 May and 28 June 2013 caused by emergency closure of the road bridge at Nowe Miasto nad Warta on National road 11.
• 382 Koszalin - Mielno Koszalinskie and 451 Lebork - Leba have summer only services again from 29 June to 1 September 2013
• 403 Arriva show Summer only trains to Nowy Dwor Gdanski in their Journey planner
• 440 Summer only trains from Somonino to Kartuzy again between 29 June to 1 September 2013
• Part 520 Szczytno - Wielbark closed on 9 June 2013 after only a 5 month re-opening.
• Part 551a Lublin - Lubartów reopened on 10 February 2013
• 551a and extended a further 30 km to Parczew from 30 September 2013

Changes with the Timetable Period commencing 9 December 2012

Closures

• 105/140 The IR pair that in 2012 ran via the link between these two lines via Mackzki to call at Sosnowiec Pld are booked to call on the main line at Myslowice
• 122 Neither route between Przemyśl Gl. - Medyka - Mostiska-II has a daily service as the daytime Kiev - Przemyśl was withdrawn and the overnight Wroclaw - Kiev runs alternate nights either via the Broad Gauge gauge changer at Przemyśl or the Standard Gauge line and the SUW 2000 gauge changer at Mostiska-II
• 141 Skawina – Oświęcim
• 149 Imielin- Oświęcim [bustituted]
• 155 Wodzislaw Śł. - Chałupki
• 173/315 Zdunska Wola - Chorzew Siemkowice - Czestochowa
• 175 Fosowskie - Lubliniec
• 255 Węgliniec - Lubań Słąski
• 321 Jarocin - Września - Gniezno
• 440 Bąk - Czersk
• 440 Kościerzyna - Bąk - Lipowa Tucholska as Arriva Summer only SSuO pair not scheduled in 2013
• 540/608 p.odg Jagiellonka - p.odg Targówek in Warsaw with the withdrawal of in service depot runs from Tluszcz - Warsawa Gdanska

On 31 December 2012

• 505 Bogaczewo - Braniewo as the daily TLK was withdrawn. At that time it was thought the dated use by the Gdynia – Braniewo – Kaliningrad service would resume later in 2013 but it did not so no cross border service apart from Charters either
• 536 Ełk - Olecko

Planned for closure on 28 February 2013 were 385 Chojnice - Szczecinek and 424 Chojnice – Kościerzyna but these were firstly deferred and have continued

Openings

From 9 December 2012:

• Part 112 [Kielce] Sitkówka Nowiny - Staszów - Ocice, this approx 85km line reopens with an IR Wrocław – Przemyśl shown stopping at Staszow. Eastbound Friday, returning Sunday. [see 2013/14 for withdrawal date]
• Part 114 Tomaszów Mazowiecki - Opoczno
• Part 170 Fosowskie - Zawadzkie
• Part 315 Klobuck - Herby Nowe
• Part 365 Kalisz Pomorski – Kalisz Pomorski Miasto but only a 23.41 SX arrival and 05.40 SuX departure

From 17 December 2012

• 2.2km Lublin Airport branch to Swidnik Port Lotniczy.

From 1 January 2013

• Part 520 Szczytno - Wielbark but closed in June 2013

Older Changes

For details of older changes dating back to the year 2001 see Poland - Older General Information.

Special Notes

Overview

The funding of local services has transferred to Regional Authorities. Some are pro-Rail to the extent of paying for new stock and re-opening lines, but others have reduced funding and service cuts occur when contracts are renegotiated.

Previous printed Timetables showed services marked with note “G”, "trains run until further notice only", which in many cases turned out to be prior warning of a service withdrawal. This annotation fell into disuse but then a Consultants Report Commissioned by PKP was published in September 2012. This recommended drastic service cuts, looking at overheads by passenger route which meant that lines with heavy freight use but sparse passenger traffic such as 173 & 315 were not listed even though passenger services using part of this line were seriously threatened, as evidenced when they were withdrawn in December 2012!

After examaning the Consultants report in conjunction with traffic data from the last seven years, on 15th February 2013 PKP with Ministry of Transport approval presented a list of 2,000 Km’s which would be closed in December 2013 with the intention of saving between 60 to 80 million zł per year. The announcement spin was that none would be totally abolished, all would be kept to minimal maintenance standards to deter scrap metal thieves etc so they can be restored if a demand reappears, quoting line 403 to Nowy Dwor Gdanski which reopened after 12 years with no trains. None actually closed by that date but to assist travelers that list of 2,000km includes current passenger services of:-

• 114 Tomaszów Mazowiecki - Opoczno
• 123 Hrebenne - Munina
• 137 Sucha Beskidszka – Źywiec [closed 12 December 2015]
• 139 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Lanckorona – Wadowice – Bielsko Biała
• 148 Bielsko Biała - Skoczów
• 250 Jelenia Góra – Lwówek Śląski - Zebryzdowa
• 515 Szczytno – Pisz - Elk
• 554 Zwierzynec - Bełźec

Plus the recent summer only services on

• 552 Line 81 Chelm – Włodawa
• 446 Line 214 Somonino – Kartuzy
• 503a Line 254 Elbąg – Braniewo
• 403 Line 256 Szymankowo - Nowy Dwor Gdański [no service in 2015 due to missing rails]

The remaining list is a combination of those mentioned in the original Consultants Report but not now imminently threatened, or those where the complete service was marked “G” in a previous Printed Timetable which are thought to be the other passenger services under most threat of closure:-

• 105 Tunel - Sosnowiec
• 109 Kozłów - Koniecpol
• 111 Dęblin - Radom
• 113 Tomaszów Mazowieki - Radom [closed from the junction towards the CMK to Drzewica on 12 December 2015]
• 114 Koluszki - Tomaszów Mazowieki
• 115 Skarżysko Kamienna - Stalowa Wola Rozwadów
• 122 Przemyśl – Mostiska II (UZ)
• 126 Ocice - Rzeszów Głowny
• 131 Jasło - Zagórz
• 132 Rzeszów – Jasło
• 141 Skawina – Oświęcim
• 151 Tychy - Tychy Miasto
• 154 Żory - Chybie
• 175 Fosowskie - Opole
• 201 Opole – Kluczbork
• 202 Opole – Nysa
• 204 Wrocław Psie Pole – Trzebnica
• 225 Nysa – Brzeg – Kedzierzyn Kozle
• 235 Legnica – Jaworzyna Śląska – Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
• 245 Kłodsko Gł. - Wałbrzych Gł
• 255 Lubań Śląski – Wegliniec
• 320 Herby Nowe – Weiluń Dąbrowa - Kępno
• 321 Jarocin – Krotoszyn – Grabowno Wielkie
• 328 Leszno - Wolsztyn - Zbąszyń
• 332 Luboń K. Poznania - Wolsztyn
• 340 Piła - Szczecinek
• 343 Zbąszynek – Międzyrzecz - Gorzów Wielkolpolski
• 350 Ostrów – Krotoszyn
• 356 Zielona Góra – Żary
• 365 Piła - Ulikowo
• 370 Wysoka Kamieńska - Kamień Pomorski
• 375 Kołobrzeg – Goleniów
• 381 Słupsk - Ustka
• 382 Kosalin - Kołobrzeg
• 382 Mśice - Mielno Kosaliński [summer only service]
• 383 Szczecinek - Słupsk
• 385 Chojnice – Szczecinek – Runowo Pomorskie
• 390 Poznań Wschod - Gołańcz
• 410 Toruń Wschodni - Sierpc – Nasielsk
• 416 Bydgoszcz Wschód - Chełmża
• 418 Kutno – Płock - Sierpc
• 424 Chojnice – Kościerzyna
• 429 Laskowice Pomorskie – Szlachta – Czersk – Bąk
• 429 Szlachta – Lipowa Tucholska
• 431 Chojnice - Wierzchuchin - Laskowice Pomorskie – Grudziądz – Jablonowo Pomorskie – Brodnica
• 451 Lębork – Łeba [summer only service]
• 500 Działdowo - Olsztyn
• 503 Gutkowo – Braniewo
• 505 Braniewo – Bogaczewo [closed 31 December 2012]
• 510 Ełk - Korsze
• 530 Sokółka - Suwalki
• 530 Kuźnica Białostocka – Grodno [Belarus]
• 535 Bialystok - Ełk
• 540 Terespol - Brest (Belarus)
• 543 Czeremcha – Białystock
• 550 Dorohusk - Chelm
• 553 Luków – Dęblin
• 554 Rejowiec - Zawada
• 554 Zamosc – Zawada
• 555 Lublin – Stalowa Wola Rozwadów
• 556 Zwierzynec – Stalowa Wola Rozwadów