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Since Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004, major financing has been made available by European financing institutions to improve both the Polish rail network and the rolling stock fleet. Up to June 2014, the European Investment Bank had provided loans totalling €1.9 billion for rail modernization projects in Poland.
Transport in Poland involves air, water, road and rail transportation. The country has a large network of municipal public transport, such as buses, trams and the metro. As a country located at the 'cross-roads' of Europe, Poland is a nation with a large and increasingly modern network of transport infrastructure.
Polregio (formerly Przewozy Regionalne) is a train operator in Poland, responsible for local and interregional passenger transportation. Each day it runs approximately 3,000 regional trains. In 2002 it carried 215 million passengers.
The Polish State Railways (PKP), a state-owned corporate group, is the main provider of railway services. The PKP group holds an almost unrivaled monopoly over rail services in Poland since it is both supported and partly funded by the national government. As of 2018, foreign services operate on the Polish Railways network.
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 services provided by PKP Intercity has expanded; in 2005, PKP Intercity launched the TLK (Lowcost Trains) brand, an alternative ...
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).
The dividing line between the metro and other modes of public transport, such as light rail [8] [9] and commuter rail, [8] [9] is not always clear. The UITP only makes distinctions between "metros" and "light rail", whereas [6] the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) distinguish all three ...
Warsaw Commuter Railway [1] (Polish: Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa, WKD) is a light rail commuter line in Poland's capital city of Warsaw.The line, together with its two branches, links Warsaw with the municipalities of Michałowice, Pruszków, Brwinów, Podkowa Leśna, Milanówek and Grodzisk Mazowiecki to the south-west of Warsaw.
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