Railways preparing for the peak summer season

Polish railway operators are preparing for the peak summer vacation season. The planned travel times from Warsaw should amount to a four hour journey to the Baltic seacoast and a little over 3 hours to Kraków. The railways have added 30 seasonal connections in order to loosen the main thoroughfares. There will be delays due to ongoing construction. The route from Warsaw to Gdańsk continues to see repairs, as does the Central Magistral Line to Katowice. Long-distance carrier, PKP Intercity has 1500 cars in its fleet of which only a third have airconditioning. The IAR release also informed of the start of summer train connections with Poland's favorite holiday destinations, Zakopane in the mountains and Hel on the Baltic.