Poland - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services

Introduction

PKP now releases two sets of PDFs, an all year, plus part year based on five periods. These are usually from December until the first Timetable "adjustment" date in Mid March, March until late June, June until late August, August until the middle of October 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 the yet to be opened to passengers Lewki to Hajnowka.

There are also usually many 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 held in early August. Note these trains require special tickets; normal PKP tickets are not valid but 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): 381 Słupsk - Ustka Uroczysko 384 Sławno - Darłowo 515 Pisz - Ełk Sparse services deleted (no service): 431a Laskowice Pomorskie - Wierzchucin 552 Świdnik Miasto - Lublin Airport