PKP Intercity

PKP Intercity
spółka akcyjna
Type JSC
Industry Rail transport
Founded January 1, 2001
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland
Key people Janusz Malinowski
CEO
Employees 7.900 (As of 2011)
Website www.intercity.pl

PKP Intercity is a company of PKP Group responsible for long-distance passenger transport. It runs about 350 trains daily, connecting mainly large aglomerations and smaller towns, also servicing most of the international trains.

The company runs the following train categories:

A high speed rail system is planned.[1]

Fast trains without reservation were transferred to PKP Intercity from PKP Przewozy Regionalne on December 1, 2008. They were all converted to TLK on December 13, 2009.

Most of the EkspresInterCity trains were degraded to the re-introduced Express category on June 1, 2011.

PKP Intercity also operates a bus service on the route Warsaw-Vilnius.

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History

The company was founded after splitting Polskie Koleje Państwowe (national rail operator) into several companies to meet European Union Standards.

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