Przewozy Regionalne

Przewozy Regionalne
Sp. z o.o.
Type Limited company
Industry Rail transport
Founded 2001 (2001)
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland
Key people Małgorzata Kuczewska - Łaska
CEO
Employees 13.260 (September, 2011)
Website www.przewozyregionalne.pl

Przewozy Regionalne (przewozy regionalne means regional transport in Polish), formerly PKP Przewozy Regionalne, is a train operator in Poland, responsible for local and interregional passenger transportation. Each day it runs approximately 3,000 regional trains. During 2002 it carried 215 million passengers.

The company was founded after dividing the Polskie Koleje Państwowe national rail operator into several companies to meet European Union requirements.

Contents

Train categories

Regio (R)
local passenger train, 2nd class only, stops (usually) at all stations
RegioPlus
semi-fast local passenger train, 2nd class only, stops at a limited number of stations, same fare as Regio
InterRegio (IR)
low-cost inter-regional fast train, 2nd class only, stops at medium and major stations only
RegioEkspres (RE)
fast trains on international/interregional routes; stops at major stations only; 1st and 2nd class, higher standard than IR; currently only on the routes: Dresden Hbf - Wrocław Główny (RegionalExpress operated by DB Regio on the German part of the route), Szczecin-Warsaw and Poznan-Warsaw. For the two latter trains, optional seat reservation is available only through the online ticket store. Polish RegioEkspres should not be confused with German RegionalExpress, for these are different types of offer.

There is also a special train service called Balice Ekspres, connecting the John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice with Kraków Main railway station with its own fare.

For domestic routes IR and RE trains share the same fare for the 2nd class (meaning you can board an RE train with an IR ticket and vice versa). With the exception of the two above-mentioned RegioEkspres trains, there is no reservation in any of the Przewozy Regionalne trains.

Until December 1st, 2008 the company also used to run other 300 interregional and international fast trains (pociąg pospieszny), but per the government's decision, the interregional and international fast trains were transferred to its then-sister company, PKP Intercity S.A. and rebranded to "Tanie Linie Kolejowe".

Ownership

Until December 22, 2008 Przewozy Regionalne was a wholly owned subsidiary of the PKP Group, after that date all of its shares have been transferred to the 16 regional governments. Thus, the company is no longer part of the PKP Group and on interregional routes its InterRegio trains are competing with PKP Intercity TLK trains.

On December 8, 2009 it finally changed its name from PKP Przewozy Regionalne to Przewozy Regionalne.

Voivodship Number
of shares		 Percentage
of shares		 Location of
directorate
Greater Poland 123,243 9.7% Poznań
Kuyavia-Pomerania 73,691 5.8% Bydgoszcz
Lesser Poland 81,315 6.4% Kraków
Łódź 72,421 5.7% Łódź
Lower Silesia 92,750 7.3% Wrocław
Lublin 69,880 5.5% Lublin
Lubusz 45,739 3.6% Zielona Góra
Masovia 171,523 13.5% Warsaw
Opole 43,198 3.4% Opole
Podlaskie 48,281 3.8% Białystok
Pomerania 90,208 7.1% Gdynia
Silesia 116,890 9.2% Katowice
Subcarpathia 62,257 4.9% Rzeszów
Świętokrzyskie 38,116 3.0% Kielce
Warmia-Masuria 67,339 5.3% Olsztyn
West Pomerania 73,691 5.8% Szczecin

See also

External links

PKP Group companies
current
former
Przewozy Regionalne · WKD
Railway operators of Poland
Passenger
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