Increasing travel comfort further with modern trains and new international connections are the most important novelties that await passengers in the new PKP Intercity annual timetable, which will come into force on Sunday 11 December 2022.

According to the company, the new timetable for the 2022/2023 season will see an average of around 400 trains departing each day. Among economy connections, the share of the IC category will increase for trains running to and from Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań, Łódź, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn or Kielce, among others.

“Since 2016, we have been investing heavily in the modernisation of the train fleet and the effects are visible to the naked eye – the new annual timetable once again brings an increase in the number of comfortable connections. Importantly, the new routes in the offer do not include only connections within Poland, but also international trains – the connection to Vilnius may be of great interest”, said Marek Chraniuk, CEO of PKP Intercity.

The first new ED160 FLIRT electric multiple trains are already available to passengers, and the carrier will be taking delivery of more such units next year. The modern vehicle will serve the Kormoran connection, which will receive a higher IC category. Along with the change of category, the train route will also change. On weekdays it will travel from Olsztyn to Bielsko-Biała, and at weekends to Wisła. The ED160 FLIRT will also serve the IC Kociewie train between Gdynia Główna and Łódź Fabryczna and Gdynia Główna.

In the new timetable, PKP Intercity has provided more connections between Warsaw and the Tricity and Krakow, which will be served by EIP trains. From 11 December, 14 pairs of trains of this category will be departing towards Krakow, and from March also towards Gdynia. Passengers will have a choice of 33 connections between Tricity and Warsaw.

There will also be a new Kraków-Vilnius-Krakow connection, which will allow travel between Poland and Lithuania with one change.

Adrian Andrzejewski