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Warszawa Centralna (official Polish name since 2019 Dworzec Centralny im. Stanisława Moniuszki ), in English known as Warsaw Central Station , is the primary railway station in Warsaw , Poland . Completed in 1975, the station is located on the Warsaw Cross-City Line and features four underground island platforms with eight tracks in total.
Szybka Kolej Miejska [2] (SKM; which translates as 'Rapid Urban Rail') is a mixed rapid transit and commuter rail system in the Warsaw metropolitan area, operated by the city owned company Szybka Kolej Miejska Sp. z o.o. under the management of Public Transport Authority in Warsaw on shared, general railway lines managed by the PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe.
Warszawa Śródmieście WKD (Polish pronunciation: [ɕrudˈmjɛɕt͡ɕɛ]) is the city terminus of the Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (WKD) suburban light rail line in Warsaw. It is situated in Aleje Jerozolimskie to the south-west of Warszawa Centralna railway station. The station was opened on 8 December 1963.
The station has been replaced by Warszawa Śródmieście and later supplemented by Warszawa Centralna, which is located to the west of the old station. Since the 1970s, the older (southern) pair of tracks is used by regional and commuter trains run (until 2005) by PKP / Polregio , and since then by Koleje Mazowieckie and Szybka Kolej Miejska .
Warsaw has a lot of bus connections with suburban towns and major cities in Poland and abroad. They are run by PKS (Car Communication Enterprise) and some private operators. The Warsaw branch of PKS has two bus terminals in Warsaw: the Central Bus Terminal by Warszawa Zachodnia railway station and the Stadion Terminal near the National Stadium ...
After Poland regained independence following World War I all rail lines in the country were converted to standard gauge and in 1919 the Polish State Railways began an extensive reconstruction of the city's railway junction connecting the former terminals of the Vienna and Terespol lines with the Warsaw Cross-City Line, opened in 1933 ...
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).
Discussion about a new airport to replace Warsaw Chopin Airport date back to at least 1971, during the early years of Edward Gierek's rule. [12] In 1978, Bogusław Jankowski (died 2017) [13] first proposed his idea of a new central airport for Poland, [14] but it was only during the Cabinet of Leszek Miller (2001–2004) that the idea began to be seriously considered.