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PKP Intercity is a subsidiary of PKP Group, a state-owned holding company for various other railway-orientated subsidiaries. [5] PKP Intercity introduced a new standard of service in the Polish rail sector. [5] Certain trains operated under the InterCity brand offer onboard snacks and most feature air conditioning. Over time, the range of ...
PKP Intercity – provides long-distance connections on the most popular routes. Trains are divided into the categories : EuroNight (EN), EuroCity (EC), Express InterCity (EIC), Express InterCity Premium (EIP) – generally faster and more expensive, InterCity (IC) and (TLK) (interregional fast trains, slower than EN/EC/EIC but cheaper) and ...
PKP Intercity is a semi-independent division of PKP that operates long-distance passenger trains in Poland. It was founded in 2001 when, in preparation for separation between infrastructure management and transport operations, the Polish State Railways were reorganized into a number of independent operating companies under the unified direction ...
Thus, the company is no longer part of the PKP Group and on interregional routes its InterRegio trains compete with PKP Intercity TLK trains. On 8 December 2009 it finally changed its name from PKP Przewozy Regionalne to Przewozy Regionalne, and in January 2017, the company started using the brandname POLREGIO [2] for its services.
Introduced in 1995 as an InterCity service, it was upgraded to EuroCity category by its operators PKP Intercity and DB Fernverkehr in 2006. The service was withdrawn at the end of 2014 but reintroduced in December 2020. In its early years, the train linked Kraków and Wrocław in Poland with Berlin and Hamburg in Germany.
The PKP Group (Polish: Grupa PKP) is a Polish corporate group founded in 2001, from the former state enterprise, Polish State Railways. The purpose of this change was to separate infrastructure management and transport operations. It consists of the following companies, of which PKP S.A. has the dominant position:
InterCity logo of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, 1971–1991. InterCity (commonly abbreviated IC on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to InterRegio, regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at major stations only.
ABB Z1B carriage used by PKP Intercity on the EuroCity Berlin-Warszawa-Express.. The first Z1 carriages in Poland were built by Adtranz/ABB.In the third quarter of 1996 the first 15 carriages of the ABB Z1A standard class have been delivered to PKP, later (after the first quarter of 1997) 35 carriages of the ABB Z1B have been delivered to Poland.