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