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Polregio

Train operator in Poland

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Polregio sp. z o.o.

SA139 of Przewozy Regionalne at Tomaszów Mazowiecki station
Company type	Limited company
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	1 October 2001 (2001-10-01)
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Key people	Adam Pawlik CEO Marcin Mróz Chairman of the supervisory board
Number of employees	6 637 (November 2022)
Website	polregio.pl

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 company was founded in 2001 from the splitup of the PKP Passenger Transport Sector of the once-unitary Polskie Koleje Państwowe national rail operator into several companies to meet European Union requirements.

Train categories[edit]

REGIO (R)

local passenger train, 2nd class only, stops (usually) at all stations

REGIOplus

semi-fast local passenger train, 2nd class only, stops at a limited number of stations, same fare as Regio

interREGIO (IR)

low-cost inter-regional fast train, 2nd class only, stops at medium and major stations only; since 1 September 2015 only on routes Łódź – Warszawa and Ełk – Grodno (Belarus), due to company's economics and restructuring.^[1]

REGIOekspres (RE)

fast trains on international routes; stop at major stations only; 1st and 2nd class, higher standard than IR; currently only on the routes: Dresden Hbf - Wrocław Główny and Frankfurt (Oder)-Poznań (both operated by DB Regio on the German part of the route as RegionalExpress)

From 26 May 2006 until 1 February 2014, Polregio also operated an airport rail link service (the first in whole of Poland) called Balice Ekspres, connecting the John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice with Kraków Main railway station with its own fare. The service ceased when the railway line was upgraded and electrified and then taken over by Koleje Małopolskie for its SKA1 line.

For domestic routes IR and RE trains share the same fare for the 2nd class (meaning you can board an RE train with an IR ticket and vice versa). With the exception of the two above-mentioned RegioEkspres trains, there is no reservation in any of the Przewozy Regionalne trains.

Until 1 December 2008 the company also used to run other 300 interregional and international fast trains (pociąg pospieszny), but per the government's decision, the interregional and international fast trains were transferred to its then-sister company, PKP Intercity S.A. and rebranded to "Tanie Linie Kolejowe".

Ownership[edit]

Until 22 December 2008 Przewozy Regionalne was a wholly owned subsidiary of the PKP Group, after that date all of its shares have been transferred to the 16 regional governments. 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 RegionalnetoPrzewozy Regionalne, and in January 2017, the company started using the brandname POLREGIO^[2] for its services.

Fleet[edit]

Electric multiple units[edit]

(as at 15 June 2020)

• 
  EN57-1267
• 
  ED72Ac-002
• 
  EN57AL-2210
• 
  EN62A-101
• 
  EN96-001
• 
  EN63A-028
• 
  ED78-024
• 
  EN57-2039

Electric locomotives[edit]

(as at 15 June 2020)

• 
  EP07P-2003

Diesel locomotives[edit]

(as at 15 June 2020)

• 
  SM42-3229
• 
  SU42
• 
  SM04-742

Carriages[edit]

(as at 15 June 2020)

• 
  SM42+120A+Bmnopux
• 
  161A
• 
  162A
• 
  163A

Diesel multiple units[edit]

(as at 15 June 2020)

• 
  SA135-020 in Koluszki
• 
  SA136-008
• 
  SA137-008
• 
  SA139-022 023

See also[edit]

• Transportation in Poland
• List of railway companies
• Polish locomotives designation

Incidents[edit]

On October 5, 2023, around 7 a.m., two Polregio trains collided near the Gdynia-Główna station. According to information provided by emergency services, the accident resulted in injuries to four individuals, including members of the railway crew.

In the 2012 Szczekociny rail crash, an interREGIO and Intercity train collided with each other near Szczekociny.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Polregio at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website