#kolej — Public Fediverse posts

On the other hand, the Warsaw SKM line between Wieliszew and Radzymin will be closed completely for track work for all of September: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/plk-wyremontuje-tory-miedzy-wieliszewem-a-radzyminem-154122.html

#kolej #rail #Mazowieckie #PKP #PLK

Also in Pomerania, PKP PLK is hoping to have all contracts for the modernization and electrification of the northern part of the old Coal Trunk Line, Gdynia-Kościerzyna-Maksymilianowo(-Bydgoszcz), signed by mid-September. Unfortunately, the Gdynia Główna-Gdańsk Osowa suburban section will have to wait for electric trains until possibly as late as 2032, more than fifteen years after the PKM line (Gdańsk Wrzeszcz-Gdańsk Port Lotniczy-Gdańsk Osowa/Rębiechowo) opened and brought the promise of commuter rail to the Tricity's western districts: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-plk-komplet-umow-na-modernizacje-linii-201-do-polowy-wrzesnia-154117.html

In better news, it looks like EMUs will reach Gdańsk Osowa as early as September, and the current Gdańsk Wrzeszcz-Gdańsk Port Lotniczy-Gdynia Główna services will be split there to offer as much capacity as possible on the wired up (years ago!) voivodeship-managed line (before, only bi-mode units and a couple specially-added out-of-Takt trains from towns south of Gdańsk terminating at the airport could use the OLE). After that, Kartuzy and Somonino should get weekend services back. Commuters are surely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pomorze-od-30-sierpnia-wiecej-pociagow-do-somonina-i-nie-tylko--154119.html

#kolej #rail #Pomorskie #PKM #MagistralaWęglowa

The reconstruction of the Wejherowo-Choczewo line, meant to serve what is to become Poland's first nuclear power plant… just like the previous incarnation in its twilight days, will require a budget increase. Not super-huge, only to the tune of less than a hundred million (sorry) PLN, but still: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/wejherowo--choczewo-wielu-chetnych-ale-drozej-niz-chca-plk-154024.html

#kolej #rail #Pomorskie

An interesting explanation of why the two IC pairs on the Sudety trunk Katowice-Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Nysa-Kamieniec Ząbkowicki-(Świdnica-Jaworzyna)-Wałbrzych have been reverted to operation with SKPL's older SN84 units and not the newer ex-Dutch DM90/SD85s - a case of approvals not being quite approvals.
Namely, ongoing construction work at Gliwice Łabędy station has apparently resulted in the curve towards Kędzierzyn-Koźle temporarily requiring a *separate* approval (perhaps in part because the SD85s did not have the smoothest, uh, loading gauge testing, shall we say). PKP PLK apparently went so far as to offer PKPIC a route with a direction change in the freight station of Toszek Północny that would bypass this particular curve, but I'm not particularly surprised that offer was rejected: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/plk-proponowalismy-zmiane-trasy-tlk-sudety-i-szczeliniec--153965.html

Unfortunately, SN84s are also among the least reliable stock at PKPIC's disposal. And particularly terrible in record-breaking hot summer: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-intercity-su4210-i-sn84-najbardziej-awaryjne-154086.html

#kolej #rail #PKPIC

The City of Bytów administration hasn't managed to return passenger trains to the Pomeranian window-making town on its own, but as they prepare to return the line to PKP PLK for revitalization, they argue they can be proud to have saved it from dismantlers, and even kept a little freight going: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/um-bytow-uratowalismy-linie-do-lipusza-przed-likwidacja-153956.html

#kolej #rail #pomorskie

Also a couple weeks ago a couple of wannabe burglars broke into a freight locomotive parked in Łódź. They were caught stripping wiring from the inside: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/wlamanie-do-lokomotywy-sok-ujal-zlodziei-na-stacji-towarowej-lodz-olechow--153997.html

#kolej #rail #Łódź

Mid-August ryneczek kolejowy:
148 million PLN of EU money has been awarded a couple weeks ago to support railway operators with fitting ETCS.
The majority is going to the prolific pool Cargounit (52 mln for electric locos and 26 mln for diesel (depressing as it is that we're putting so much into diesel still)), followed by Freightliner (~42 mln), Polregio (EMUs, ~24 mln) and Rail STM (4 mln). On the reserve list ended up bids from the likes of Polregio (LINTs), DB Cargo, Captrain and other freight operators.

Rejected were bids from… voivodeship railways Koleje Mazowieckie and Koleje Dolnośląskie. You would think they'd have expertise in getting public financing: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/trzech-przewoznikow-i-pool-ze-wsparciem-unijnym-na-etcs-153994.html

#kolej #rail #ETCS

Kiedyś dziwiłem się, że ludzie tak narzekają na #kolej. Myślałem, że to kwestia skali: ja jeżdżę dużo, więc nawet jeśli mam większą szansę trafić na problemy, to pozostają one rzadkością w stosunku do wszystkich przejazdów. A jak ktoś jedzie od wielkiego dzwonu, to pojedyncze utrudnienie jest już znamienne.

Ale teraz jak jeżdżę #PKP #InterCity, to już bardziej rozumiem ludzi.

The state budget will take over financing of the first Łódź cross-city tunnel as the delays have grown too high to finish by the Feniks program deadline of 2029. EU funds earmarked for the project will be redirected to other investments related to suburban rail: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/malepszak-nowego-wykonawce-lodzkiego-tunelu-poznamy-do-konca-roku-153952.html

#kolej #rail #Łódź

A few more quick ones…
PKP PLK proposes a radical overhaul of replacement bus funding in the 2027/8 network rules. Instead of refunding operator costs of replacement transport caused by track work, PLK would pay a fixed sum for every train-km subject to replacement, and only when the cause is solely due to an unplanned line closure or extension of a planned closure.

This has attracted much criticism from train operators, who rightly note that bus transport cannot be equated to rail, with route lengths and costs varying widely.
They also note that the 'solely' in the condition for the compensation is doing a lot of work and could easily be used to deny payments if line closures combine with sudden rolling stock failures or other factors: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/nowy-regulamin-sieci-plk-a-komunikacja-zastepcza-kto-poniesie-koszty--153896.html

#kolej #rail #PKP #PLK

Last, but not least, 185 traction vehicles were newly equipped with ETCS, driven primarily by new locomotive purchases of PKP Intercity

/end thread

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

Capacity exhaustion is also hitting - according to PKP PLK, the length of lines with no free capacity whatsoever has more than doubled, with lines such as the local tracks of the Warsaw crosstown tunnel, the Aleje Jerozolimskie-Służewiec section of the Chopin airport/Piaseczno/Radom line, most of the Kościerzyna/Kartuzy-Gdańsk Rębiechowo route, and local lines Bydogszcz-Unisław, Jabłonowo Pomorskie-Brodnica and Rydułtowy-Sumina being added to the list in 2025.

In the peaks, the infamously congested western throat of Wrocław Głowny was taken off the lists, but new and exciting chokepoints like Płock-Sierpc, Augustów-Suwałki or Wałcz-…pretty sure they meant Kalisz Pomorski landed instead

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

On the freight side the drop-off of the historically dominant fossil fuels has slowed down to the point that the share of raw coal/oil/gas (but really, it's almost all coal) in the transported mass has actually gone up a bit. The fastest-growing segment is the rebounding wood and pulp one, followed by "nonmetal substances", largely building materials like cement. Mail and parcels are down 99% while "moving and other non-trade goods" are up infinity%, whatever that means

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

Poland's growth in rail passenger-km of 7.75% was third in Europe, behind Portugal (with a whopping 25.55%!) and Ireland (13.07%), and just ahead of Switzerland (7.5%). Growth percentage in passenger numbers alone had Poland in seventh, with the leaders being Slovenia and Hungary.

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

Punctuality went down from 91.64% to 91.44% (where a train is considered punctual up to 6 minutes delay - a further 16.95% finished their routes delayed less than 6 minutes). There was an improvement in the summer months, but this was more than offset by the following autumn months.

2181 trains arrived at their terminus delayed over 2 hours. 18913 trains were cancelled, of which 48.6% were the infamous Polregio and 13.5% KD.

The most common delay reasons by occurrence were:
- Passenger movements (14.59% of cases)
- Rolling ststock failure (11.24%)
- Extended travel time (7.23%)

The hardest-hitting delay reasons by minutes inflicted were:
- Rolling stock failure (16.94% of delay minutes, over 840 thousand in absolute numbers)
- Delays abroad (7.45%)
- Accidents incl. suicides (5.25%)

WKD remains the most-punctual regular operator at 99.48% (down from 99.61%), with ČD rising to second and bumping SKMT and ŁKA down a spot. PKPIC remained went down from 76.71% to 76.33%

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

International train ridership increased relative to 2024 by ~18% to 11.6 mln. PKPIC accounts for 88.4% of that ridership, followed by UBB with 5.3% (yes, Usedom accounts for five percent of Poland's international rail passengers!), Polregio (much of which is really DB Regio) with 2.12%, RegioJet with 2.1%, KD with 1.34% and Leo Express with 0.35% (bound to increase this year!)

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025 #CrossBorderRail

Financial return across all passenger rail operations increased from 0.4 mln PLN to 0.7 mln PLN, while the share of state and region subsidies in the income of train operators increased by just 0.62 pp to 58.12%.

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025

So, UTK's railway stats for 2025 were released last week. Unsurprisingly passengers are up, freight is down, but intermodal is also up.

Probably most interesting thing so far is that Wrocław Główny has been dethroned in the busiest station ranking - it's now third behind Kraków Główny and Poznań Główny, each of which rose by millions while Wrocław fell a bit, the former becoming the fist station to hit over 30 mln passengers getting on and off since UTK data collection began.

Passenger traffic is up almost everywhere, although one notable exception is the Silesian Voivodeship (the effect of the ongoing Katowice rebuild, I'm pretty sure). PKP Intercity gained another almost 11 million passengers and has now beaten Polregio's 2022 numbers and passed 20% market share. If things continue like this, PKPIC will take the highest ridership crown for 2026 or 2027. Other operators gaining market share are KD, SKM Warsaw (recovering from a dip), WKD (likewise but not fully recovered yet) and KMŁ.

#kolej #rail #UTKStats2025 #PKP #PKPIC

PKP PLK is threatening to sue the leader of the Locomotive Drivers' Trade Union who refused to retract comments in which he stated multiple recent derailments occurred due to PLK not reacting to findings from regular track inspections properly and having trains run at full speed where conditions call for a restriction: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/zzm-mietek-nie-przeprosi-za-oskarzenia-wobec-plk-153874.html

#kolej #PKP #PLK #rail

Newsdrop, "Jon Worth just crossed half of Poland by regional rail" edition:

PKP Intercity has moved up the extension of IC Gryf (currently Szczecin-Olsztyn) to Białystok via Pisz from December to September this year. This will mark the return of IC trains to the southern Masuria-crossing line after a brief absence due to the primary northern route through Korsze and Giżycko reopening: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-intercity-z-calorocznym-pociagiem-do-pisza-od-wrzesnia-153884.html

#PKPIC #kolej #PKP #rail

Dziś odpowiem na trudne pytanie, które czasem słyszę: "czy panu się to opłaca?"

Otóż, opłaca mi się. Dziękuję za uwagę.

A tak poważnie, to pozwolę sobie zastosować prostą arytmetykę.

Jeżdżę zwykle 5 dni w tygodniu. To daje jakieś 260 dni w roku. W rzeczywistości będzie tego więcej, bo czasem wpadnie jakiś wyjazd do lekarza, weta, urzędu.

Karta kosztuje 12100 zł na rok. Przy powyższym uproszczeniu, to daje jakieś 46,50 zł na jeden wyjazd.

Moi drodzy, za 46,50 zł to ja nawet do Ponieca nie pojadę (licząc powrót). Owszem, zdarzają mi się krótsze (tańsze) wyjazdy, ale z reguły jeżdżę "drożej". A że mieszkam na wiosce, to z reguły wchodzi Os + IC.

#PKP #InterCity #kolej #mikol

Pogoda w #Świnoujście dopisała, a więc kontynuowałem dziś eksplorację #bunkry baterii ciężkiej artylerii nadbrzeżnej Goeben w lasach między S3 a #Przytór

Umocnienia te nadal robią na mnie wrażenie w zestawieniu z innymi, późniejszymi konstrukcjami w okolicach

Tym razem bunkier elektrowni i wiata maskująca dla kolejki wąskotorowej

#eksploracja #historia #aktywnie #rower #militaria #fotografia #fortyfikacje #pomorzeZachodnie #kolej

If this news does make you wonder if there might not be something interesting to catch on a short trip into Poland, the two prototype FPS Plus hybrid multiple units used by Lubusz Voivodeship are back from repairs. Try to catch them while they're hot, I guess? https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/obie-lubuskie-hybrydy-wrocily-do-ruchu--153852.html

#FPS #kolej #rail #lubuskie #bahnbubble

Okay, here's maybe less news and more an example of terrible coverage of #CrossBorderRail - trains between Berlin and Kostrzyn have returned on Saturday 11 July, Rynek Kolejowy publishes a piece announcing it three weeks later, and cites Polregio (responsible operator on the Polish side) as saying they're running to Ostkreuz whereas they're STILL terminating in Lichtenberg, according to German info.
On which point, it's been OVER HALF A FRIGGING YEAR and the Germans apparently still haven't told their Polish counterparts that the extension to Ostkreuz isn't happening yet. What the hell?: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/wrocily-bezposrednie-pociagi-kostrzyn--berlin---153873.html

cc @jon @erpu

#kolej #rail #Kostrzyn #CrossRegionRail

On to Lower Silesia… After the central government struck revitalization of the line to Bogatynia from the Kolej Plus program, the voivodeship has been considering taking over the line and doing it on its own. Unlike other lines the Lower Silesian Rail and Road Service has brought back before, this one has an extra complication - it has traffic, traffic that cannot be suspended because it serves the all-important Turów lignite mine and power plant complex (ugh, yes, the very one we picked a dumb fight with Czechs over as if the environmental problems weren't terrible on their own): https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/remont-linii-do-bogatyni-bez-wstrzymania-ruchu-towarowego-153869.html

#Dolnośląskie #kolej #rail

Speaking of Warmia-Masuria… The voivodeship doesn't see itself as being particularly in the wrong regarding its shoddy tender… but they've delayed the proposed starting date to the yearly timetable change in December 2027. It's a start: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/warminskomazurskie-nowi-operatorzy-od-grudnia-2027--153853.html

(If you haven't read it yet, try my thread about from June, it's a bit juicy: https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/116720881964644481)

#RegionalRail #kolej #rail #WarminskoMazurskie

ŁKA, the Łódź Voivodeship's own train operator, was meaning to officially launch its new Pesa Elf III EMUs on the 3rd of August… and then they made a surprise "railfan alert" announcement that one was going to run a midday shift earlier. The surprise debut went poorly, with the unit being withdrawn early due to a toilet failure, it seems: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/weekend-mial-nalezec-do-elfow-3-pierwsza-awaria-153879.html

#Pesa #ŁKA #Łódź #kolej #rail

The PKP Cargo wagons @partim saw in the Poprad river (https://social.tchncs.de/@partim/116985418254117584) have been fished out a couple days ago, after spending almost two weeks in the waters. Not the best holiday, I imagine: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/weglarki-usuniete-z-popradu-153835.html

#kolej #pkpcargo #pkp #rail