Polregio (formerly ''Przewozy Regionalne'') is a train operator in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

, responsible for local and interregional

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. 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 (''PKP S.A.''; en, Polish State Railways, Inc.) is the dominant railway operator in Poland. The company was founded when the former state-owned enterprise was divided into several units based on the need for separation between infrastructure ...

'' national rail operator into several companies to meet

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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

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

–

Warszawa Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

and

Ełk Ełk (; former pl, Łek; german: Lyck; Old Prussian: ''Luks''; lt, Lukas), also spelled Elk in English, is a small city in northeastern Poland with 61,677 inhabitants as of December 2021. It was assigned to Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999, ...

– Grodno (Belarus), due to company's economics and restructuring. ;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)-

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(both operated by DB Regio on the

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part of the route as

RegionalExpress In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at ...

) There is also a special train service called Balice Ekspres, connecting the John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice with Kraków Main railway station with its own fare. 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 ('), but per the government's decision, the interregional and international fast trains were transferred to its then-sister company,

PKP Intercity PKP Intercity is a company of PKP Group responsible for long-distance passenger transport. It runs about 350 trains daily, connecting mainly large agglomerations and smaller towns in Poland. The company also provides most international trains to ...

S.A. and rebranded to "Tanie Linie Kolejowe".

Ownership

Until 22 December 2008 Przewozy Regionalne was a wholly owned subsidiary of the

PKP Group PKP Group ( pl, Grupa PKP) is a Polish corporate group founded in 2001 from the former state enterprise, Polish State Railways. The purpose of this change was to separate infrastructure management and transport operations. It consists of the follo ...

, after that date all of its shares have been transferred to the 16

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governments. Thus, the company is no longer part of the PKP Group and on interregional routes its InterRegio trains compete with

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'' for its services.

Fleet

Electric multiple units

(as at 15 June 2020) File:EN57 1267 on the line from Liswarta to Herby Nowe. Temporary detour due to track works (Herby Nw.).jpg,

EN57 EN57 (manufacturer's designation: Pafawag 5B/6B) is an electric multiple unit used by the Polish railway operator ('' PKP''). It was built for suburban and long-distance services. Presently it is used by Przewozy Regionalne (Polregio), Łódzka Ko ...

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Electric locomotives

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Diesel locomotives

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SM42 SM42 is the PKP classification system, PKP class for a Polish switcher, shunter diesel locomotive for shunting and light freight traffic, built by Fablok in Chrzanów (manufacturer's designation is Ls800E, designer's designation 6D). History Th ...

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Carriages

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Diesel multiple units

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References

External links

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