Train routes in Poland

Berlin → Warsaw · 570 km · 5 h 25 min

PKP Intercity & DB · EuroCity (EU44 Husarz)

Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.

Warsaw → Wrocław · 355 km · 3 h 40 min

PKP Intercity · ED250 Pendolino

Southwest across the Polish plain via Łódź to Lower Silesia’s handsome market city of Wrocław, threaded with its hundred bridges.

Züssow → Świnoujście · 66 km · ≈ 1 h 50 min

UBB · Stadler GTW railcar

The imperial spa line: along Usedom’s beaches from Züssow over the Peene bridge to Ahlbeck’s pier, then across the border into Świnoujście.

Gdynia → Hel · 76 km · ≈ 1 h 45 min

Polregio · Polregio EN57 · Impuls

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.

Kraków → Wrocław · 260 km · ≈ 3 h 15 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Poland’s two great tourist cities linked across industrial Silesia on the 1847 Upper Silesian Railway, the mesh line no Warsaw-bound train covers.

Poznań → Szczecin · 213 km · ≈ 1 h 55 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Continuation of the Warsaw expresses to the Baltic’s big absent city: Szczecin’s Prussian boulevards and the gateway to Świnoujście.

Poznań → Piła · 95 km · ≈ 1 h 13 min

Koleje Wielkopolskie · Koleje Wielkopolskie regional

Built in 1879 to hook Poznań onto the Prussian Eastern Railway; a recent rebuild cut about fifteen minutes off the run north through Chodzież to Piła.

Kutno → Łódź · 82 km · ≈ 1 h 32 min

PKP Intercity · InterCity

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.

Wrocław → Poznań · 164 km · ≈ 1 h 27 min

PKP Intercity · InterCity

Silesia to Wielkopolska via Leszno, opened in 1856 and now part of TEN-T corridor E59 from Scandinavia south to Vienna and Budapest.

Słosinko → Człuchów · 84 km · ≈ 1 h 38 min

PolRegio · PolRegio

PKP line 413 across the Pomeranian lakes and forests, capped at 50 km/h: an hour and a half for 84 km.

Ełk → Olsztyn · 165 km · ≈ 2 h 00 min

PKP Intercity · InterCity

Across Masuria through Szczytno and Pisz: the old East Prussian line from Allenstein to Lyck, still one train's ride end to end.

Bielsko-Biała → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska · 57 km · ≈ 1 h 34 min

PKP Intercity · InterCity

Built as the Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railway's Bielitz–Kalwaria local line, running through Wadowice under the Beskids.

Warsaw → Szczecin · 511 km · 4 h 19 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity express

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.

Warsaw → Lublin · 175 km · ≈ 1 h 54 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

The 1877 Vistula River Railroad east from Warsaw, rebuilt for 160 km/h: under two hours to Lublin’s renaissance old town.

Warsaw → Olsztyn · 231 km · ≈ 2 h 19 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Off the Gdańsk main line at Działdowo, then through the wooded lake country via Nidzica and Olsztynek into Olsztyn, gateway to Masuria.

Warsaw → Bydgoszcz · 286 km · ≈ 2 h 34 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

The 1862 Warsaw–Bydgoszcz Railway via the brick-gothic city of Toruń, Copernicus’s birthplace, to the Brda riverside.

Wrocław → Szczecin · 355 km · ≈ 4 h 8 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

The Nadodrzanka: down the Oder valley through Głogów and Zielona Góra, the quiet 1870s corridor between Silesia and the Baltic.

Poznań → Gdynia · 332 km · ≈ 3 h 13 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Across Wielkopolska and Pomerania: Gniezno’s cathedral hill, Bydgoszcz, then the Vistula crossing at Tczew and the Tri-City coast to Gdynia.

Berlin → Przemyśl · 864 km · ≈ 11 h

DB · PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity coaches

The EuroCity across Poland: Berlin and the Oder, Wrocław and Opole, the Silesian cities and Kraków, then on east to Przemyśl at the Ukrainian border.

Warsaw → Terespol · 212 km · 2 h 11 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Warsaw east to the Bug on the 1866 Terespol railway, the third line built in Congress Poland, running through Siedlce and Biała Podlaska to the Belarusian frontier.

Piła → Szczecin · 173 km · 3 h 5 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Across Pomerania on a railway the Prussians finished in 1895 and Poland gave up on in 2000: through trains came back to Wałcz and Choszczno in 2012, five pairs a day.

Szczecin → Świnoujście · 112 km · 1 h 38 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Szczecin to the Baltic across Wolin island, over the Dziwna and through Międzyzdroje to the ferry berths at Świnoujście, on rails that reached the Świna in 1900.

Olsztyn → Elbląg · 97 km · 1 h 28 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Warmia end to end, Olsztyn through Morąg to Elbląg and the Vistula Lagoon, on a line that reached Olsztyn from Bogaczewo in August 1883.

Inowrocław → Olsztyn · 197 km · 2 h 16 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Kuyavia to Masuria across the Vistula at Toruń, then Iława and Ostróda to Olsztyn, on the Prussian trunk that joined Poznań to East Prussia in 1873.

Sierpc → Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki · 107 km · 1 h 29 min

Koleje Mazowieckie · Koleje Mazowieckie

A Mazovian branch line: Sierpc down the Wkra valley to Nasielsk, then Modlin and Nowy Dwór, on a First World War military narrow gauge regauged and opened properly in 1924.

Lublin → Zamość · 116 km · 2 h 3 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Lublin south east to Zamość and its Renaissance old town, through Rejowiec and the Wieprz valley, on the section of the Rejowiec to Hrebenne line opened in 1916.

Dęblin → Łuków · 61 km · 51 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Dęblin to Łuków across the Lublin plain, on rails that took sixty years to join up: Łuków reached Stawy in 1876 and the last stretch into Dęblin waited until 1935.

Kutno → Płock · 52 km · 44 min

Koleje Mazowieckie · Koleje Mazowieckie

Kutno north to Płock and the Vistula, on a line opened on the last day of 1925, the bridge over the river into the city following in 1938.

Sierpc → Toruń · 80 km · 1 h 41 min

Arriva RP · Arriva regional

One of the last railways the Second Republic built: eighty kilometres laid between 1935 and 1937, and the Drwęca bridge at Lubicz was the first in Poland to carry welded girders.

Laskowice Pomorskie → Czersk · 55 km · 1 h

Arriva · Arriva regional

A Prussian act of 20 July 1902 ordered it, and the 55 km from Laskowice to Czersk opened on 2 October 1906; the stretch beyond to Bąk came in 1928 to feed the building of the coal trunk line.

Czersk → Tuchola · 53 km · 1 h 14 min

Arriva · Arriva regional

A piece of the coal trunk line built to reach the new port at Gdynia without crossing the Free City of Danzig: the whole Bydgoszcz to Gdynia stretch opened on 9 November 1930.

Forst (Lausitz) → Wrocław · 189 km · 2 h 59 min

Koleje Dolnośląskie · D25 Sprinter

Most of the old Breslau–Berlin trunk, in its 1875 alignment through Żagań: a single Lower Silesian sprinter crosses the Nysa at Zasieki and runs 189 km to Wrocław.

Leipzig → Wrocław · 352 km · 3 h 35 min

DB Fernverkehr · PKP Intercity · EC 133

Named for the medieval road it shadows: the EuroCity takes the Oberlausitz company’s line of 1874 and crosses at Horka, a border that carried no scheduled passenger trains for decades.

Lublin → Wrocław · 492 km · 5 h 38 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Lublin to Wrocław the long way round, through Radom, Kielce and Częstochowa, then west across Silesia to Opole and the Oder; the Częstochowa to Kielce link, opened in 1911, was the last piece of the route.

Kraków → Hrubieszów · 367 km · 5 h 17 min

PKP Intercity · PKP Intercity

Kraków to Hrubieszów near the Ukrainian border, by Tarnów, Mielec and Stalowa Wola, then east through Biłgoraj and Zwierzyniec to Zamość and its Renaissance old town; the line from Stalowa Wola to Biłgoraj was only completed in 1976.

Częstochowa → Łódź · 146 km · 2 h 25 min

Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna · ŁKA regional

From Częstochowa over the line to Chorzew Siemkowice, built in 1939 and used only by freight from 2012 until passenger trains came back in December 2024, then by Zduńska Wola, Łask and Pabianice to Łódź Kaliska.

Siedlce → Białystok · 195 km · 3 h 15 min

Polregio · Polregio regional

Through the woods of Podlasie: from Siedlce by Siemiatycze to the junction at Czeremcha and on to Hajnówka at the edge of the Białowieża Forest, then north by Bielsk Podlaski to Białystok; the Siedlce line opened in 1906.

Lichkov → Wrocław · 138 km · 1 h 44 min

PKP Intercity · Leo Express · EuroCity · Leo Express

From Lichkov on the Czech border by Międzylesie and the Długopole tunnel down the Nysa Kłodzka valley to Kłodzko, then north by Ziębice and Strzelin to Wrocław; the line through the tunnel opened in 1875.