Polregio

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Polregio
ED78-024 Newag Impuls type at Poznań Główny station
Type	Spółka akcyjna
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, lit. 'Regional Transport') 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 splitting of the PKP Passenger Transport Sector of the once-unitary Polish State Railways 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 Łódź – Warszawa and Ełk – 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)-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 Express, connecting Kraków Airport (via Kraków Lotnisko railway station) with Kraków Główny at its own fare. The service ceased when the railway line was upgraded and electrified and then taken over by Lesser Poland Railways 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 RegioExpress trains, there is no reservation in any of the Polregio 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 and rebranded to Tanie Linie Kolejow (lit. 'Cheap Railway Lines').

Ownership

Until 22 December 2008 Polregio was a wholly owned subsidiary of the PKP Group, after that date all of its shares have been transferred to the 16 voivodeship 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, the company changed its name from PKP Przewozy Regionalne to Przewozy Regionalne, and in January 2017, the company started using the brand name POLREGIO for its services.

Branches

Rolling stock

Electric multiple units

Family	Class	Image	Cars	Type	Top speed		Number	Builder	Refurbished by
					km/h	mph
–	EN57		3	EMU	110–120	68–75	295	Pafawag	Pesa Mińsk Mazowiecki, Newag, HCP FPS
–	EN71		4		110	69	4	Pafawag	–
–	ED72		4		110–120	68–75	20	Pafawag	Pesa Mińsk Mazowiecki
–	EN81		1		120	75	6	Pesa	–
Newag Impuls	14WE		3		110	69	5	Newag	–
	EN63		3		160	100	59	Newag	–
	ED78		4				30	Newag
	EN78		4				5	Newag
	EN90		5				10	Newag
	EN98		2				12	Newag
	31WEbb		4				29	Newag
	36WEhb		4				8	Newag
Pesa Elf	EN62		3		160	100	6	Pesa
	EN76		4				8	Pesa
	EN96		2				8	Pesa
	22WEg		4				5	Pesa
Pesa Acatus Plus	EN64		3		160	100	5	Pesa	–
Pesa Acatus Plus	EN99		2				8	Pesa

Accidents and incidents

• On 3 March 2012, at approximately 20:55 CET, a Przewozy Regionalne train collided head-on with a PKP Intercity train on the Kozłów–Koniecpol railway near Szczekociny. Sixteen people died in the incident and 58 were injured. The cause of the incident was human error.
• On 5 October 2023, at around 7:00 CET, two Polregio trains collided head-on near Gdynia Główna, causing the first car of one train to derail and roll over to its side. Four people were injured, all of whom were railway workers.

See also

• Rail transport in Poland

References

External links

• Media related to Polregio at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website