And last and most: The Ministry of Infrastructure has announced trains are going to reach the west Podlachian town of Łomża, deprived of passenger rail since 1993, this June! …However, the initial offer will not include the promised direct connections to Warsaw. The first #PKPIC route to connect Łomża will run Białystok-Łapy-Łomża (direction change)-Ostrołęka-Szczytno-Olsztyn, instead. There will be 2 pairs a day of those, and also 4 pairs of Polregio trains to Białystok. All these trains will use a new curve in the direction of Białystok being constructed at Śniadowo. The exact timetables are still being constructed and will be announced, well, when PKP PLK announces timetable changes.
The cited reason for the lack of direct connections to Warsaw is twofold: One, PKP IC is still short on Diesel rolling stock, pending the delivery of Newag Impuls EDMUs - the Białystok-Łomża-Olsztyn trains are to be run with ex-Dutch DM90 units rented from SKPL Cargo (which are to be painted in the livery used on PKP IC's Flirt and Dart EMUs as a sign of commitment to long-term usage). Second, capacity is reduced between Ostrołęka and Tłuszcz, a major junction north-east of Warsaw, due to engineering works. The national carrier expects to start running Warsaw-Łomża from the March 2027 timetable change: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pociagi-dalekobiezne-z-lomzy-do-olsztyna-a-nie-do-warszawy--126559.html
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#kolej #pkp #rail #CrossRegionRail #bahnbubble #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026
W czerwcu po wieloletniej przerwie mają ruszyć pociągi pasażerskie do Łomży. Poznaliśmy właśnie szczegóły planowanej oferty połączeń dalekobieżnych. W pierwszym okresie po wznowieniu przewozów PKP Intercity dowiezie podróżnych do Białegostoku i Olsztyna, a nie – jak zapowiadano wcześniej – do Warszawy. Pociągi do stolicy ruszą z Łomży w przyszłym roku.
RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115717619606815975
DB has now confirmed that they've deployed ETCS (balises, I guess) for automatic national system transition at the Frankfurt (Oder)-Rzepin border: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/szybciej-pociagiem-przez-granice-we-frankfurcie-nad-odra-126089.html
#Rail #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #CrossBorderRail #Kolej #DB #PKP
RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115787021160368959
The old Biebrza (a Warsaw-Gdynia via Czeremcha, Białystok, Ełk direct train, now split into two in Białystok) may be gone, but you can still find direct long way around ICs in Poland :P - here you can see the Lubomirski, 1044 km in just over 11 hrs from Kraków to Szczecin via Zawiercie (this detour due to engineering works), the Central Trunk Line, Warsaw and the Tricity
So, as I imagine is becoming a regular #RailwayNewYear activity for me, I am Takt hunting. Which is to say, I'm trawling #PLK timetables to see how well #PKPIC's boasts of the increasing number of Takt relations are reflected in the actual timings (having realized that expanding to something similar to https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115142221091238924 would be rather too time-consuming right now). The south is currently rather disrupted by the twin worksites at Katowice station and Kraków-Kozłów, but getting into the 200s, we have our first result!
The (Białystok-)Warsaw-Łódź-Wrocław relation, also known as line P15 in the 2035 network draft, is now almost fully 2h Takt until Ostrów Wielkopolski! (EDIT: In the other direction, there's equal spacing from Wrocław until the 3pm train, at which point things get somewhat messed up and only get evened out around Sieradz) Getting equal spacing on the Ostrów-Wrocław leg has proven beyond PLK's ability at this time, which is understandable - a single-track section, further encumbered due to an ongoing closure on its twin running via Międzybórz Sycowski and, of course, the Gordian knot of the three-track western approach to Wrocław Główny where traffic from seven directions has to fit all work against the planners.
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Attached: 1 image (This is the promised English thread) Here it is - the final (if kinda ugly, I'm no good at design) version of the #EffectivePaxRailNet Polish Lands 1939 map! I drew it on paper and then digitized it with Inkscape, styling the lines with color and thickness to indicate the longest gaps between trains on the given sections. The dashed-not-dotted (slightly thicker) lines are generally ones with 6~6.5 pairs where my notes didn't clearly indicate the gaps were all smaller than 4h. I used modern, or at least as modern as possible, Polish names everywhere (except for Kaliningrad Oblast, that place is complicated). (And yeaaah, I really need to find somewhere I can host these things on a more permanent basis, especially including the original SVG - you can barely see the smallest captions due to Mastodon image size limits) (Post with rules I apply here: https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/114558906905813832) (I'd like to note that as I only looked at timetables of individual lines, you can't exactly judge the "effectiveness" of junction stations with this map, researching timed transfers is a whole 'nother thing) 1/n (This thread is dedicated to @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] (the former to for sparking the bout of inspiration that led to me actually doing this and the latter, because without him I wouldn't have been here to interact with the former two) #rail #pkp #DeutscheReichsbahn #bahnbubble #trainbubble #history
In other #RailwayNewYear news, it does indeed look like pretty much all Poland-Vienna ECs have been extended from Hbf to Westbahnhof
I'm only now really going through the PLK tables (got work, rest and that other project that turns out just doesn't wanna wait xp) and holy, somehow I'd missed the news about EuroNight Carpatia, a Przemyśl-Prague/Budapest/Munich via Vienna night train (Czech couchette in the Prague part, Polish sleeper to Budapest, Polish both to Munich).
Running a *second* night train Kraków-Vienna-Munich is certainly a choice, especially since from what I recall these can't serve Vienna very well as they have to traverse the Westbahn at night to not get into the way of RJXs. Better than dealing with DB for more than absolutely necessary, I guess.
More interesting is that they decided to have it pull into Kędzierzyn-Koźle and do a runaround with the loco instead of using the perfectly cromulent connecting curve that ought to be available there
#RailwayNewYear #Fahrplan2026 #Timetable2026 #PKP #PKPIC #ČD #NightTrain #rail #kolej #CrossBorderRail #bahnbubble
#WhatsMissing : 
a through carriage in 
40469 - 
EC 59 #Galicja - 
Ш 52.
(Paris Est 19:12, Strasbourg 23:42 - Frankfurt(Main) Süd 03:14-03:19 - 08:26) Berlin Hbf 08:52, Frankfurt(Oder) 09:47-09:50, Rzepin 10:09-10:12, Krakow Glovni 16:02-16:19, Rzeszow 17:41-17:47 - Przemyśl 18:48 (- 20:32 Львів 01:21-01:43 - Київ Пас 8:44)
UZ has rolling stock eligible for this route and the timetable is actually perfect for this through carriage, there's a dining car at day time for food, enough time for the Schengen border checks in Przemyśl. Would be an amazing winner but I fear times for re-establishing through carriages on any line are over for a long time.
Podczas posiedzenia sejmowej Komisji Infrastruktury PKP Intercity przedstawiło plany rozwoju oferty połączeń międzynarodowych. Pasażerowie mogą być zadowoleni. Piotr Malepszak, wiceminister infrastruktury, podczas komisji powiedział, że temat rozwoju oferty międzynarodowej realizowanej przez PKP Intercity to element wdrażania przez spółkę większej pracy eksploatacyjnej, czyli zwiększania liczby pociągów na sieci kolejowej w Polsce. Oczywiście, w realizacji przewozów międzynarodowych
波鉄 (Hatetsu)
Braid in trains 
- solidarity with 
Jeder 
