Polregio

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Polregio sp. z o.o.
TypeLimited company
IndustryRail transport
Founded2001 (2001)
HeadquartersWarsaw, Poland
Key people
Krzysztof Zgorzelski
CEO
Number of employees
6 860 (September 2018)
Websitepolregio.pl Edit this at Wikidata

Polregio (formerly Przewozy Regionalne) is a train operator in Poland, responsible for local and interregional passenger transportation. Each day it runs approximately 3,000 regional trains. During 2002 it carried 215 million passengers.

The company was founded after dividing the Polskie Koleje Państwowe national rail operator into several companies to meet European Union requirements.

Train categories[]

A typical InterRegio carriage
An unit as the Balice Ekspres train to Kraków International Airport
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.[1]
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)

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 (pociąg pospieszny), but per the government's decision, the interregional and international fast trains were transferred to its then-sister company, PKP Intercity S.A. and rebranded to "Tanie Linie Kolejowe".

Ownership[]

Until 22 December 2008 Przewozy Regionalne was a wholly owned subsidiary of the PKP Group, after that date all of its shares have been transferred to the 16 regional 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 it finally changed its name from PKP Przewozy Regionalne to Przewozy Regionalne, and in January 2017, the company started using the brandname POLREGIO[2] for its services.

Voivodship Number
of shares		 Percentage
of shares		 Location of
directorate
Greater Poland 123,243 9.7% Poznań
Kuyavia-Pomerania 73,691 5.8% Bydgoszcz
Lesser Poland 81,315 6.4% Kraków
Łódź 72,421 5.7% Łódź
Lower Silesia 92,750 7.3% Wrocław
Lublin 69,880 5.5% Lublin
Lubusz 45,739 3.6% Zielona Góra
Masovia 171,523 13.5% Warsaw
Opole 43,198 3.4% Opole
Podlaskie 48,281 3.8% Białystok
Pomerania 90,208 7.1% Gdynia
Silesia 116,890 9.2% Katowice
Subcarpathia 62,257 4.9% Rzeszów
Świętokrzyskie 38,116 3.0% Kielce
Warmia-Masuria 67,339 5.3% Olsztyn
West Pomerania 73,691 5.8% Szczecin

Fleet[]

Electric multiple units[]

(as at 15 June 2020)

Type Number Speed Manufacturer Modernized
EN57

and modernisations

211 110 km/h Pafawag
75 110 km/h Pesa, ZNTK MM, Newag
65 120 km/h ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki
14 120 km/h
23 120 km/h
3 120 km/h
4 120 km/h Newag
4 120 km/h
14 120 km/h HCP FPS
EN71 20 110 km/h
ED72

and modernisations

9 110 km/h
4 110 km/h ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki
2 120 km/h
6 120 km/h
EN62 1 160 km/h
EN62A 5 160 km/h
5 160 km/h
EN76 6 160 km/h
EN76A 2 160 km/h
2 120 km/h
EN96 4 160 km/h
EN96A 4 160 km/h
4 160 km/h
EN61 1 110 km/h Newag
EN63 1 160 km/h
EN63A 41 160 km/h
EN63B 8 160 km/h
ED78 30 160 km/h
EN90 10 160 km/h
EN98 3 160 km/h
Together: 581

Electric locomotives[]

(as at 15 June 2020)

Type Number Speed Manufacturer Modernized
EP07P 5 125 km/h Pafawag ZNLE Gliwice
Together: 5

Diesel locomotives[]

(as at 15 June 2020)

Type Number Speed Manufacturer Modernized
SM42 11 90 km/h Fablok
SU42 7 90 km/h ZNTK Nowy Sącz
SM04 5 30 km/h
Together: 23

  • SM42-204

  • SU42

  • SM04-742

Carriages[]

(as at 15 June 2020)

Type Number Speed Manufacturer Modernized
9 120 km/h Pafawag
18 120 km/h Waggonbau Görlitz
5 160 km/h HCP
6 160 km/h
5 160 km/h
2 160 km/h
Together: 45

  • SM42+120A+Bmnopux

  • 161A

Diesel multiple units[]

(as at 15 June 2020)

Type Number Speed Manufacturer
13 120 km/h
6 100 km/h ZNTK Poznań
5 120 km/h
2 100 km/h Kolzam
6 100 km/h ZNTK Poznań
7 100 km/h Kolzam
1 120 km/h
3 120 km/h
24 120 km/h
17 120 km/h , ZNTK MM
8 120 km/h
SA136 12 120 km/h
7 120 km/h Newag
3 120 km/h
SA139 11 120 km/h
2 130 km/h Newag
Together: 139

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Zmiany w ofercie Przewozów Regionalnych" (in Polish). Przewozy Regionalne. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Regional Transport turns into POLREGIO!".

External links[]

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