photo: PKP Intercity/EXCITING: PKP Intercity announces more trains over the long weekend! What does it mean for the passengers?
The recent interest in rail travel during the summer season has reached record levels. In light of this, the carrier has announced plans to launch additional trains, reinforce selected trains with extra carriages and extend the routes of certain trainsets to serve the most popular holiday routes during the August long weekend. PKP Intercity has already planned the lengthening of almost 100 trainsets in anticipation of the demand.
Monday, August 15, will see the largest number of additional trains and extended routes. Additional trains EIP 5146/7 and EIC 5140 will be launched to ensure the return from the long weekend in Tricity, departing from Gdynia Główna to Warsaw in the evening hours of Monday. The citizens of Wrocław will also be able to use an additional TLK 56160/1 Lednica BIS train to return to Wrocław on Monday afternoon.
An additional train IC 1563/2 Lazur BIS will depart from Łódź a few minutes after 5 a.m. to provide a morning commute for travellers heading to Tricity from Łódź and Warsaw. Varsovians spending the weekend in Warmia will be able to use IC 51162 Mazury BIS, departing from Olsztyn after 7 p.m. On the other hand, residents of Olsztyn and the surrounding area resting in Mazovia can return on an additional train, IC 15167 Mazury BIS, departing from the capital after 11 p.m.
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For travellers on the Warsaw-Terespol-Warsaw route, an additional pair of trains will be available on Monday. TLK 11160/1 Skaryna BIS will depart from Warsaw to Terespol after midnight, and TLK 11162/3 Skaryna BIS will depart on the return journey just before 5 a.m.
Travellers returning from Krakow to the capital on Monday evening can take the opportunity to use an additional EIP 3160/1 train. Alternatively, the TLK Malinowski BIS train, departing Krakow after 6 p.m., is an economical option. The TLK Wyspiański BIS train, leaving a short while before 6 p.m., will take residents of Wrocław and the surrounding area back from Krakow along with regular trains. Both trains will pass through Częstochowa, serving the increased pilgrim traffic.
Two trains, TLK Lubomirski and TLK Zosia, will travel in an extended relation to the Baltic Sea. TLK Lubomirski, which runs daily between Krakow and Gdynia, will take travellers as far as Kołobrzeg on August 14 and return in the same extended relation on August 15. TLK Zosia, running between Łódź and Warsaw, will take passengers to Tricity on August 15 in the morning and depart from Gdynia shortly after midnight on its return journey.
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