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The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe [ˈpɔlskʲɛ ˈkɔlɛjɛ paj̃ˈstfɔvɛ], abbr.: PKP S.A. [2]) is a Polish state-owned holding company (legally a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury) comprising the rail transport holdings of the country's formerly dominant namesake railway operator.
The Polish railways network consists of around 18,807 kilometres (11,686 mi) of track as of 2023, [2]: 7 of which 12,149 km (7,549 mi) is electrified. [2]: 13 The national electrification system runs at 3 kV DC. Poland is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), its UIC Country Code is 51.
A map of the Polish railway network in 1939. Even though the Polish railway network in 1939 had deficiencies, the majority of important cities had convenient rail connections with each other. The major exception was the connection of Wilno to the seaport of Gdynia, some 500 km away. Trains running on this route had to cover a distance of about ...
Warszawa Centralna railway station in Poland (1975) At the beginning of 1945, the Ministry of Transport was created, as well as the Regional Directorate of National Railways. Many pre-war locomotives were sent to the Soviet Union. Poland received many German locomotives as a compensation for war losses. In June, the rail connection with Warsaw ...
TKz 211 is in the Warsaw railway museum TKz 224: 1'E1' t 1 TKz 226: 1'E1' t 1 Narrow gauge steam locomotives. PKP Class ... ATLAS parowozów (in Polish). Poznań ...
Every railway line in Poland has its own number, with the lowest numbers attached to the most important and most strategic routes. Line number 1 links Warsaw Centralna with Katowice Central Station, while line number 999, the last one on the list, is a side track, joining Piła Main with a secondary-importance station of Piła North (Pila Północ).