From the May/June 2026 issue of Z Biegiem Szyn, a very rare example of an independant one-man railway publication that scrutinizes things the rail industry would rather keep quiet about. You can read all issues in the original Polish at https://zbs.net.pl :
- Railway regulator UTK finds PKP PLK deliberately skipped fixing flaws or outright downplayed them on certain lines, which resulted in several derailments last winter. The infrastructure manager outright admitted to skimping on maintenance for lines awaiting delayed overhauls despite receiving billions of PLN from the state budget for this purpose every year.
- On 26 April, a tire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_tire) crack on an InterCity train running the Łódź-Warsaw-Tricity route resulted in delays country-wide as PKPIC decided to limit all carriages with the same type of wheelset to 140 km/h until the cause of the incident could be determined. This covered about a third of all PKPIC trains, and the author points out that even after DB decided to replace tired wheelsets with monobloc ones across the ICE fleet after Eschede, PKPIC continues to have them retained during car overhauls.
- An increase in maximum speeds on the Nasielsk-Sierpc route to 100-120 km/h has increased the number of level crossing accidents - only a handful has been fitted with barriers. There have been 3 accidents in 2023, before the overhaul, 6 in 2025, and 4 in the first four months of 2026 alone. This has been a significant source of strain on Koleje Mazowieckie's Diesel rolling stock availability (and budget)

…And all that is just the second page alone

#kolej #rail #Poland #pkp #plk #ZBiegiemSzyn

🏀 Wciągam się w oglądanie koszykówki. Musze przyznać, że to bardziej porywająca dyscyplina niż piłka nożna.

Wczoraj obejrzałem oba mecze fazy play-off PLK. Przedwczoraj - jeden. Dzisiaj też obejrzę przynajmniej jeden.

#koszykówka #plk

PKP PLK has signed a contract for design work on building extra passing loops between Władysławowo and Hel. Only design, because funding for the actual building work has yet to be secured. The project involves building a passing loop in the forests north of Hel, at the Chałupy halt, and also doubling the Władysławowo-Władysławowo Port section along with adding a second platform in Władysławowo: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/plk-zwiekszy-przepustowosc-linii-na-hel--142607.html

#pkp #plk #kolej #pomorskie #hel

A pamiętacie, jak #PKP #PLK zrobiło dłuuuugi peron na przystanku #Jastrowie Miasto, żeby się pociągi PKP #InterCity mogły zatrzymywać?

No więc w dalszym ciągu się nie zatrzymują.

In other Polish rail news, apparently they added the ability find a particular train by name to Portal Pasażera some weeks (I think) ago, so you don't have to look up the number anymore if you use those

#PLK #rail #kolej #PKP

Kiedy widzisz pomarańczowe płoty, i uświadamiasz sobie, że nie jesteś już na obszarze sieci #PKP #PLK (tylko #DSDiK).

#mikol