Railway Poland - The borders (or, Styki Polski) (MID-UPDATE)

(Currently being updated for 2025/6) Poland's inner rail borders, created by the execution of the handover of responsibility for regional rail to the voivodeships, and also information on the state of the outer rail borders. Feel free to click on each border and read the notes, too! This map is a remix of Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail All The Borders map (https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041), compiled by HaTetsu (https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu) and mostly up-to-date as of September 2025. It was inspired by short discussions of the problems of French rail regionalization which are in some ways even worse than Poland's despite (or because?) the operation being almost all SNCF. I swear it's not a challenge, but the borders are colored according to whether Jon's passed through there as part of the #CrossBorderRail journeys, as on the original. Lines that only existed in wartime are excluded, as may have been a couple minor ones dismantled long ago. Voivodeships and surrounding regions are represented with ISO letter codes where possible, not because they are well known, but because they are easily checked, short, and mostly unambiguous once learned - the exceptions are Czechia and Ukraine which do not use letter codes, for Czechia I used license plate codes prepended with CZ-. KEY TO TRAIN OPERATORS (in case of cross-border cooperations where one operator provides the actual rolling stock and the other mostly support and license, the 'minor' operator is in parentheses after a space): IC - PKP Intercity RJ - RegioJet LEx - Leo Express PR - Polregio AR - Arriva RP KW - Koleje Wielkopolskie KD - Koleje Dolnośląskie ŁKA - Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna KŚ - Koleje Śląskie KM - Koleje Mazowieckie KMŁ - Koleje Małopolskie (Companies operating abroad) UBB - Usedomer Bäderbahn DB - Deutsche Bahn (Regio or Fernverkehr) DLB - Die Länderbahn TL(DLB) - Trilex (Die Länderbahn) ČD - České Dráhy GWTR - GW Train Regio LET - Leo Express Tenders ZSSK - Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko UZ - Ukrzaliznytsia KEY TO COLOURS: Magenta - #FF00DD: visited in 2022 during #CrossBorderRail Project Light pink - #FF76C3: visited in since the 2022 project Grey - #777777: not yet visited Very light grey - #BBBBBB: used for tramways and narrow gauge lines KEY TO ICONS: Track with cross - track is missing or out of use Train with cross, and track - track is useable but no passenger trains Train and track - regional passenger trains run IC - Only long-distance passenger trains run SOURCES: Primarily the excellent https://www.bazakolejowa.pl and https://atlaskolejowy.net, as well as official timetables from PKP PLK, DB InfraGO (station posters), the Správa Železnic and ŽSR