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The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe, 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 company was reformed in 2001 when the former Polish State ...
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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).
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.
The Polish State Railways PKP considered two options: to expand existing transshipment facilities at the border (the break of gauge point) and to upgrade existing railway line to three or even four tracks to allow more freight to be carried, or to build a new broad-gauge line to ease transit across the border.
After World War II, the railway line came under Polish administration, transitioning from a private line to a state-owned one, becoming part of the Polish State Railways network. This formal transfer was made under Article 2 of the law passed on 3 January 1946 regarding the nationalization of key industries. [28]
In the summer of 1939, weeks ahead of the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland the map of both Europe and Poland looked very different from today. The railway network of interwar Poland had little in common with the postwar reality of dramatically changing borders and political domination of the Soviet-style communism, as well as the pre-independence German, Austrian and Russian networks ...
In 2005, the Department of Railroad Stations of the Polish State Railways divided the most important stations of the nation into four categories. These categories were named from A to D, based on number of passengers, visiting the stations annually. [1] Category A (16 stations) - more than 2 million passengers annually,