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EXCITING: Largest PKP Intercity stopping station with modern eco-washing facility. Here's all you need to know!

EXCITING: Largest PKP Intercity stopping station with modern eco-washing facility. Here's all you need to know!
photo: PKP Intercity/EXCITING: Largest PKP Intercity stopping station with modern eco-washing facility. Here's all you need to know!
29 / 07 / 2022

The reconstruction of PKP Intercity's automatic train washing facility at the Warszawa Grochów stabling station has been completed. Thanks to the investment, the time for washing a single train set will be shortened, the standard of rolling stock maintenance will be raised, and the facility will operate year-round, regardless of weather conditions. The reconstruction of the facility, which meets high environmental standards, is yet another project implemented as part of the largest investment program in PKP Intercity's history.

The train washing facility in the Grochów district of Warsaw, Poland, is equipped with three self-propelled frame portals that can clean a train of up to nine cars in an automated manner, reducing washing time by threefold. The renovated facility also allows for the cleaning of train roofs and interiors, and has a sewage treatment plant that operates in a closed cycle to allow for multiple uses of wash water. The facility was co-financed by European Union funds under the Operational Program Infrastructure and Environment 2014-2020.

PKP Intercity, the company that operates the Polish railroad, is investing in new train cars and locomotives to make the railroad more traveler-friendly. The company is also developing stabling stations, including the modern car washes, to improve technical service for the rolling stock. By 2030, the company plans to invest PLN 2.6 billion in environmentally friendly parking stations and technical facilities to bring standardization to the facilities and have 52 stabling stations and railroad sidings throughout Poland. The company's investment program is aimed at building a safe, comfortable, predictable, accessible, and environmentally friendly railroad.

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