#railwaynewyear — Public Fediverse posts

In the Lubusz Voivodeship, the Poznań-Gorzów SD85/DM90 InterCity offer is set to expand to 8 pairs a day in 2 hour Takt from #RailwayNewYear: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/gorzow-wielkopolski-bedzie-8-par-szybkich-pociagow-do-poznania-154654.html

They will replace the last direct Kostrzyn-Poznań Regios - taking the Regio to Krzyż and changing to InterCity there may still be faster for some, but possibly more expensive: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/koniec-pociagow-regio-kostrzyn--gorzow--poznan--154480.html

On the other side of the voivodeship, the town Nowa Sól will regain a direct Regio connection to Poznań via Zielona Góra that they apparently had until 2024 and had been missing it since. It had been shortened to Zielona Góra as part of the handover of the Zielona Góra-Głogów-Wrocław route to KD meant to alleviate problems with the local Polregio branch's notorious unreliability: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/wroca-bezposrednie-pociagi-nowa-sol--poznan--154478.html

#kolej #rail #Polregio #Lubuskie #PKPIC

I wrote the other day about Warmia-Masuria's tender woes, and one of the things they're trying to do is start running bi-hourly trains between Ełk and Olecko. Well, it turns out that's not the full extent of reactivation plans there… Two weeks ago, vice-minister for railways Malepszak apparently promised a Suwałki-Olecko-Ełk-Pisz-Olsztyn-Tricity-Szczecin IC pair for #RailwayNewYear.
One pair is not going to reshape Poland's railway map or anything, of course, but this is, to an extent, a breakthrough for what's supposed to become Lithuania's main connection to the rest of Europe: https://dwutygodniksuwalski.pl/nowe-polaczenie-kolejowe-suwalki-szczecin-juz-od-grudnia-pojedzie-przez-gdansk/

#PKPIC #PKP #kolej #rail #CrossRegionRail

RE: https://zug.network/@deluisa/116438556141684471

For the international audience: Koleje Dolnośląskie (the Lower Silesian Railways) are expected to rent 6 Poland-approved DMUs from DB that currently ply the Forst-Tuplice-Żary route and use them to expand cross-border traffic to a Legnica-Cottbus through connection with 7 pairs a day (and also improve their diesel rolling stock numbers overall) from the 2026/7 timetable. Funding is supposed to be secured through at least 2030.

Bit of a shame they couldn't get this figured out sooner what with all the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) chaos but this should make Forst significantly better as an alternative, more affordable and reservation-free, route between Germany and Poland

#rail #db #CrossBorderRail #CrossRegionRail #RailwayNewYear

https://mastodon.com.pl/@[email protected]etwork/116438556497196039

And in Polish railway bullshit, I keep finding new kinds of substandard timetables - like here in Żulin (I feel like I shouldn't find the name funny :/), a formerly full-blown station where the last train from Lublin was moved earlier this #RailwayNewYear and now departs 15:54 for a 16:40 departure onwards from there. After that, there's another Regio pair (and another train north on weekends and another IC south, but that wouldn't stop here no matter what) which passes this and one other halt nearby which is NOT a demand stop, but starts stopping everywhere from Krasnystaw.

#Lubelskie #Polregio #PKP #PLK #Kolej #RozkładJazdy #Timetable #RegionalRail

@vorortanleiter Poznań, not Wrocław, it's been extended since #RailwayNewYear :D

Okay, so now that I've looked into VagonWeb, it turns out it's only a separate train until Bohumín, where it joins the existing EN Chopin to Munich and EN Slovakia to Prague. That makes a lot more sense XD
#RailwayNewYear #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #PKP #PKPIC #NightTrain #rail #kolej #CrossBorderRail

So, as I imagine is becoming a regular #RailwayNewYear activity for me, I am Takt hunting. Which is to say, I'm trawling #PLK timetables to see how well #PKPIC's boasts of the increasing number of Takt relations are reflected in the actual timings (having realized that expanding to something similar to https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115142221091238924 would be rather too time-consuming right now). The south is currently rather disrupted by the twin worksites at Katowice station and Kraków-Kozłów, but getting into the 200s, we have our first result!
The (Białystok-)Warsaw-Łódź-Wrocław relation, also known as line P15 in the 2035 network draft, is now almost fully 2h Takt until Ostrów Wielkopolski! (EDIT: In the other direction, there's equal spacing from Wrocław until the 3pm train, at which point things get somewhat messed up and only get evened out around Sieradz) Getting equal spacing on the Ostrów-Wrocław leg has proven beyond PLK's ability at this time, which is understandable - a single-track section, further encumbered due to an ongoing closure on its twin running via Międzybórz Sycowski and, of course, the Gordian knot of the three-track western approach to Wrocław Główny where traffic from seven directions has to fit all work against the planners.

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#Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #TaktHunting #PolskiTakt #kolej #PKP #rail #bahnbubble

In other #RailwayNewYear news, it does indeed look like pretty much all Poland-Vienna ECs have been extended from Hbf to Westbahnhof

#PKPIC #rail #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #kolej

Apparently people are reporting on SkyscraperCity that ECs from Berlin aren't stopping in Frankfurt (Oder) Oderbrücke for the system change anymore

#RailwayNewYear #Fahrplan2026 #bahnbubble #DB #PKPIC #PKP #CrossBorderRail

I'm only now really going through the PLK tables (got work, rest and that other project that turns out just doesn't wanna wait xp) and holy, somehow I'd missed the news about EuroNight Carpatia, a Przemyśl-Prague/Budapest/Munich via Vienna night train (Czech couchette in the Prague part, Polish sleeper to Budapest, Polish both to Munich).

Running a *second* night train Kraków-Vienna-Munich is certainly a choice, especially since from what I recall these can't serve Vienna very well as they have to traverse the Westbahn at night to not get into the way of RJXs. Better than dealing with DB for more than absolutely necessary, I guess.

More interesting is that they decided to have it pull into Kędzierzyn-Koźle and do a runaround with the loco instead of using the perfectly cromulent connecting curve that ought to be available there

#RailwayNewYear #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #PKP #PKPIC #ČD #NightTrain #rail #kolej #CrossBorderRail #bahnbubble

ICYMI, With 1 December, the GSM-R rollout in Poland is set to finally start - the day will mark the start of trial use of GSM-R on the Warsaw-Gdynia, Warsaw-just before Poznań, just past Warsaw-Łódź and Skierniewice-Łowicz mainlines, to be "operationally deployed" (made mandatory, I guess?) on #RailwayNewYear. In March, just past Warsaw/Skierniewice-Łuków-Terespol, Poznań-Kunowice (DE border), Opole-Wrocław-Węgliniec-Bielawa Dolna (DE border) to follow.

Of those, Warsaw-Gdynia, Warsaw-Łódź and Opole-Wrocław-Legnica already have ETCS up going by OpenRailwayMap

https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-plk-od-grudnia-rusza-gsmr-na-wybranych-liniach-125652.html

#kolej #rail #pkp #gsmr

Meanwhile in Poland's open access revolution: RegioJet finds out the hard way that when they tell you that you can only expect PKP PLK timetables to be final two weeks before entry into force, they kinda mean it - no promised ticket sales from November 4 after all: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/nie-znaleziono-polaczenia-co-ze-sprzedaza-biletow-regiojet-125418.html

#kolej #pkp #pkpplk #OpenAccess #RegioJet #RailwayNewYear

Welp, unhappy news for walk-up railway proponents and #Interrail users: ČD is expanding compulsory reservation to all trains it operates as part of line Ex1 between Prague and Ostrava from #RailwayNewYear - that means all EC and IC trains running that route will require reservations in addition to the SuperCity Pendolino trains that already did.
ČD have emphasized that reservations will remain optional on all trains running on PSO contracts - that means trains like the Púchov-bound Valašský Expres ECs (with a change in Hranice) or the Slovacký Expres rychlík trains (with a change in Přerov) remain booking-free options (note that the change was not applied in draft timetables you can get from the Správa Železnic, so you can't see which trains are affected at a glance yet, but the press release explicitly mentions trains like the Silesia to Poland are affected - which will be kind of funny as that should create a tiny comp res-free section Ostrava-Bohumín there).

Of course, the thing they emphasize more is that seat reservations on SuperCities will now be cheaper to match the newly squared-R trains - from 70 (source: seat61) to 35 CZK. They seem to have already dropped the price as of today on cd.cz, at least, despite the wording of the announcement suggesting it would only apply from the change.

https://www.ceskedrahy.cz/tiskove-centrum/tiskove-zpravy/ceske-drahy-spustily-predprodej-jizdenek-na-jizdni-rad-2026 (via Rynek Kolejowy)

(cc @interrailinfosvenska @jon)

#ČeskéDráhy #CD #rail #CompulsoryReservation

Also, I see #RegioJet posted expected timetables for December and the #CrossBorderRail Prague-Warsaw train appears to bypass the heavy engineering works at Katowice station using an unorthdox route, with stops in Racibórz, Gliwice, Tarnowskie Góry, Pyrzowice Lotnisko and Zawiercie. That makes one obvious route, which may be interesting as it covers a curve in Karb, Bytom that hasn't seen regular passenger services in a long time, if ever

#Streckensammler #RailwayNewYear

#CrossRegionRail - Łódź Voivodeship to double the offer of direct Łódź-Radomsko-Częstochowa trains, aiming for a 1 hour Takt - from this #RailwayNewYear in December. Will be accomplished by adding #ŁKA trains to the existing Polregio ones with full ticket cross-compatibility.

https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/od-grudnia-ponad-dwa-razy-wiecej-pociagow-regionalnych-lodz--czestochowa-125043.html

#kolej #pkp #rail

The night-time Baltic Express is losing its sleeper carriage again from October because funding was not agreed in time - but the connection's potential was recognized and starting from #RailwayNewYear 2025/6 the sleeper will run year-round (and adding a couchette is being considered). The train is also to be rerouted between Bydgoszcz and Tczew via Toruń and Iława in order to add direct connections (hopefully this will ensure the northbound train arrives in the Tricity at a more reasonable time, it's really early currently).

On the day trains, it looks like the only thing set to change from December is the bar carriage, which is to be provided by the Czechs and thus, run the whole route instead of belonging to the domestic Wrocław-Gdynia part of the train

(Source: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-intercity-nocny-baltic-express-zmieni-trase-wagon-sypialny-na-stale-124471.html)

cc @jon @kolej @backontrack

#CrossBorderRail #nighttrain #pkp #pkpic #čd #kolej

#RegioJet officially announced their Polish open access network, including #CrossBorderRail, set to launch on #RailwayNewYear in December, with full service from April 2026. Routes:
Kraków-Warsaw-Gdynia
Warsaw-Poznań
Warsaw-Ostrava-Prague
Warsaw-Ostrava-Vienna

Tickets available on RJ's website and app, opening ticket desks in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in December.

Fair bit of boasting, especially about their role as an employer (still intensively looking, I guess), and also an admission: "As the offer until December 2025 is pure marketing, our travel times will be a bit longer (around 30 minutes) and there will be only one pair of our connections. That's why we will be offering tickets **at very low prices**. The catering prices are final, however."

(Source: https://regiojet.pl/regiojet-w-polsce via https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/regiojet-odslania-karty-z-warszawy-nie-tylko-do-krakowa-124470.html)

cc @jon @kolej

#kolej #rail #poland #poznań #trójmiasto #Gdańsk #Gdynia

Amusingly, they seem to have yet to assign it a platform at Zawiercie, very Czech-like.
Less amusingly, I really hope RegioJet will be finally included in the #Kursbuch tables published by PKP PLK, even if only from #RailwayNewYear, this is going to be a pain otherwise

Some #RailwayNewYear presents come early: the Mazovian Railways (Koleje Mazowieckie) have started selling tickets on #Koleo a few days ago, patching up a significant hole in the coverage of what I think is the best booking app for our menagerie of railway operators.
It can now book any domestic train except for the Warsaw SKM (which uses normal bus/tram/metro tickets) and the WKD (an older commuter railway connecting Warsaw's southwestern suburbs). It took the team from Warsaw's Saska Kępa close to nine years from launch to kind-of integrate Polish domestic railway ticketing - I imagine the international expansion will wait until the new EU ticketing regulation is unveiled.

#rail #Poland