PKP receives first Pendolino trains

Poland's state-owned railway group PKP has announced that the first two high-speed Pendolino trains produced by Alstom have successfully passed tests and will be in operation in Poland. The company is now testing other trains it had ordered. All of the newly manufactured Pendolinos are due to start carrying passengers in Poland on December 14. Ticket sales will start on November 15, PKP said. The new high-speed trains will travel between Warsaw and Gdynia, Wrocław, Katowice and Kraków.