Faster rail service between Warsaw and Katowice coming

On Friday, PKP Polish Railway Lines announced that it had released a tender for the replacement and improvement of infrastructure on its Number 1 line, serving Warsaw and Katowice, as well as on the connection to Częstochowa, the Polish press reported. The company will spend PLN 0.5 billion to replace several kilometres of track, build or upgrade bridges, viaducts and culverts, and replace crossovers and signaling devices. The work will begin early in 2017 and continue through to 2020. The fastest travel time between the two cities by Inter-city rail is currently 3 hours, 2 minutes. It’s estimated that the upgrades will reduce that time to 2 hours, 40 minutes.