Polregio Explained

Polregio sp. z o.o.
Type:Limited company
Location:Warsaw, Poland
Key People:Adam Pawlik
CEO
Marcin Mróz
Chairman of the supervisory board
Num Employees:6 637 (November 2022)
Industry:Rail transport

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

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 ŁódźWarszawa and EłkGrodno (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 (Polish: 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

    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 Regionalne to Przewozy Regionalne, and in January 2017, the company started using the brandname POLREGIO[2] for its services.

    VoivodshipNumber
    of shares
    Percentage
    of shares
    Location of
    directorate
    Greater Poland123,2439.7%Poznań
    Kuyavia-Pomerania73,6915.8%Bydgoszcz
    Lesser Poland81,3156.4%Kraków
    Łódź72,4215.7%Łódź
    Lower Silesia92,7507.3%Wrocław
    Lublin69,8805.5%Lublin
    Lubusz45,7393.6%Zielona Góra
    Masovia171,52313.5%Warsaw
    Opole43,1983.4%Opole
    Podlaskie48,2813.8%Białystok
    Pomerania90,2087.1%Gdynia
    Silesia116,8909.2%Katowice
    Subcarpathia62,2574.9%Rzeszów
    Świętokrzyskie38,1163.0%Kielce
    Warmia-Masuria67,3395.3%Olsztyn
    West Pomerania73,6915.8%Szczecin

    Fleet

    Electric multiple units

    (as at 15 June 2020)

    TypeNumberSpeedManufacturerModernized
    EN57and modernisations211110 km/hPafawag
    75110 km/hPesa, ZNTK MM, Newag
    65120 km/hZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki
    14120 km/h
    23120 km/h
    3120 km/h
    4120 km/hNewag
    4120 km/h
    14120 km/hHCP FPS
    EN7120110 km/h
    ED72and modernisations9110 km/h
    4110 km/hZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki
    2120 km/h
    6120 km/h
    EN621160 km/hPesa
    EN62A5160 km/h
    EN645160 km/h
    EN766160 km/h
    EN76A2160 km/h
    EN812120 km/h
    EN964160 km/h
    EN96A4160 km/h
    EN994160 km/h
    EN611110 km/hNewag
    EN631160 km/h
    EN63A41160 km/h
    EN63B8160 km/h
    ED7830160 km/h
    EN9010160 km/h
    EN983160 km/h
    Together: 581

    Electric locomotives

    (as at 15 June 2020)

    Diesel locomotives

    (as at 15 June 2020)

    TypeNumberSpeedManufacturerModernized
    SM421190 km/hFablok
    SU42790 km/hZNTK Nowy Sącz
    SM04530 km/hZastal
    Together: 23

    Carriages

    (as at 15 June 2020)

    TypeNumberSpeedManufacturerModernized
    120A9120 km/hPafawag
    Bmnopux18120 km/hWaggonbau GörlitzPesa
    161A5160 km/hHCP
    162A6160 km/h
    163A5160 km/h
    113Aa2160 km/h
    Together: 45

    Diesel multiple units

    (as at 15 June 2020)

    TypeNumberSpeedManufacturer
    SA10313120 km/hPesa
    SA1056100 km/hZNTK Poznań
    SA1065120 km/hPesa
    SA1072100 km/hKolzam
    SA1086100 km/hZNTK Poznań
    SA1097100 km/hKolzam
    SA1311120 km/hPesa
    SA1323120 km/h
    SA13324120 km/h
    SA13417120 km/hPesa, ZNTK MM
    SA1358120 km/h
    SA13612120 km/hPesa
    SA1377120 km/hNewag
    SA1383120 km/h
    SA13911120 km/hPesa
    SA1402130 km/hNewag
    Together: 139

    See also

    Incidents

    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.

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Zmiany w ofercie Przewozów Regionalnych . https://web.archive.org/web/20150815012408/http://www.przewozyregionalne.pl/node/18425 . 2015-08-15 . 18 September 2015 . Przewozy Regionalne . pl.
    2. Web site: 2017-01-02 . Regional Transport turns into POLREGIO! . https://web.archive.org/web/20170307045046/http://polregio.pl/en/for-travelers/informations/regional-transport-turns-into-polregio/ . 2017-03-07 . polregio.pl.