Pendolino carried 1 mln passangers

PKP Intercity serviced 1 million passengers of Express Intercity Premium (EIP, Pendolino) since December 14 2014, when the high-speed trains were launched, the railway company informed in a press release on Tuesday. "Railway is back to the game. In April, we recorded a 23 percent growth in a number of passengers in comparison to the last year. According to our statistics, today we carried the millionth passanger," said Jakub Karnowski, PKP's CEO. The millionth passenger was traveling from Kraków to Warsaw. PKP has bought 20 of the high-speed trains from Alstom. They are operating between Warsaw and four other cities – Gdańsk, Wrocław, Katowice and Kraków.