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Train routes in Poland
27 routes · classic 19 · night train 2 · scenic 1 · heritage 5
27 routes cross Poland in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper at 780 km; the fastest is the EIP Pendolino, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1847. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (19)
- EIP Pendolino
Rides Poland’s 1970s Central Main Line (CMK), engineered decades ahead of its time and now being upgraded to 250 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - EIP Pendolino
Capital to the Baltic amber coast, Gdańsk’s Hanseatic old town, in under three hours.
Wikipedia ↗ - Express InterCity Premium
Poland’s fastest train, hitting 200 km/h on the dead-straight Central Rail Line (CMK) engineered for high speed back in the 1970s.
Wikipedia ↗ - Express InterCity
Historic trunk line on the Paris–Berlin–Warszawa–Moscow corridor; the same rails carry the Berlin-Warszawa-Express onward to Germany.
Wikipedia ↗ - IC Przemyślanin
Crosses Poland to Przemyśl, the southeastern gateway where standard gauge meets Ukraine’s broad gauge, handover point for Kyiv-bound trains.
- IC Kraków–Przemyśl
The old Galician main line east: Kraków, Tarnów, Rzeszów and the fortress town of Przemyśl, last stop before Ukraine.
Wikipedia (PL) ↗ - LTG Link
For years the Baltics’ only rail gateway to the rest of Europe. Vilnius to Warsaw through the Suwałki Gap, changing trains at Mockava.
Wikipedia ↗ - Berlin-Warszawa-Express
Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.
Wikipedia ↗ - EIP Pendolino
Southwest across the Polish plain via Łódź to Lower Silesia’s handsome market city of Wrocław, threaded with its hundred bridges.
Wikipedia ↗ - Usedomer Bäderbahn
The imperial spa line: along Usedom’s beaches from Züssow over the Peene bridge to Ahlbeck’s pier, then across the border into Świnoujście.
Wikipedia ↗ - Hel Peninsula Line
A railway down a sandbar: 34 km along the Hel spit, at points 200 m wide, open Baltic one side and lagoon the other — packed solid every Polish summer.
Wikipedia ↗ - IC Kraków–Wrocław
Poland’s two great tourist cities linked across industrial Silesia on the 1847 Upper Silesian Railway — the mesh line no Warsaw-bound train covers.
- IC Poznań–Szczecin
Continuation of the Warsaw expresses to the Baltic’s big absent city: Szczecin’s Prussian boulevards and the gateway to Świnoujście.
Wikipedia ↗ - Łódź–Kutno railway
Łódź's link north to the Warsaw–Poznań main line at Kutno, through Zgierz, Ozorków and Łęczyca, part of it doubling as the city's freight ring.
Wikipedia ↗ - Wrocław–Poznań railway
Silesia to Wielkopolska via Leszno, opened in 1856 and now part of TEN-T corridor E59 from Scandinavia south to Vienna and Budapest.
Wikipedia ↗ - Człuchów–Słosinko railway
PKP line 413 across the Pomeranian lakes and forests, capped at 50 km/h — an hour and a half for 84 km.
Wikipedia ↗ - Olsztyn–Ełk railway
Across Masuria through Szczytno and Pisz — the old East Prussian line from Allenstein to Lyck, still one train's ride end to end.
Wikipedia (PL) ↗ - Kalwaria Zebrzydowska–Bielsko-Biała railway
Built as the Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railway's Bielitz–Kalwaria local line, running through Wadowice under the Beskids.
Wikipedia (PL) ↗ - EIC Warszawa–Szczecin
Warsaw to the Oder in four and a quarter hours, on the old Prussian main line west through Poznań, then Krzyż and Stargard to Szczecin, where Poland meets the German border.
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Night train (2)
- Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper
Wartime lifeline to the EU: at the Bug border every carriage is jacked up and its bogies swapped from 1,520 to 1,435 mm gauge while passengers doze.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Chopin
The Chopin sleeper has linked Vienna and Warsaw since at least the 1980s, slipping through the Moravian Gate by night and finishing down Poland’s CMK fast line into the capital before six.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (1)
- Kraków–Zakopane
Climbs from Kraków into the Tatra Mountains on the rebuilt line to Zakopane, Poland’s highest town and winter-sports capital.
Heritage (5)
- Bieszczady Forest Railway
Poland’s highest narrow-gauge line, a former logging railway that now carries over 150,000 riders a year into the Bieszczady wilderness.
Wikipedia ↗ - Wolsztyn Steam
Europe’s last everyday steam: commuters behind a 1948 Pt47 out of the working Wolsztyn roundhouse — an ordinary ticket, an extraordinary train.
Wikipedia (PL) ↗ - Żnin District Railway
A 600 mm minirailway from 1894 chuffing 12 km through Pałuki to the Iron Age lake fort of Biskupin — archaeologists commute by narrow gauge.
Wikipedia (PL) ↗ - Nadmorska Kolej Wąskotorowa
Opened 1896 and still packing 150,000 riders a summer: metre-gauge cars amble from Gryfice to the Baltic cliffs, Poland’s last coastal narrow gauge.
Wikipedia ↗ - Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge
Running since 1853 — the world’s oldest continuously operating narrow gauge: 785 mm industrial track turned heritage line across the Silesian coalfield.
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