The operator will offer around 400 services daily, around 20 more than its current offer, including a new Warsaw - Poznań EIC Paderewski service. PKP Intercity will also increase the number of services on the following routes:

  • Warsaw - Krakow (26 pairs of trains, up from 24)
  • Warsaw - Łódź (28, up from 23)
  • Tricity area of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot to Warsaw (28, up from 26), and
  • Warsaw - Wrocław (14, up from 12).

Travel to and from Lublin will be improved, with seven pairs operating from Warsaw via Pilawa and Dęblin, while the number of connections to Lublin from other regions will also increase.

The continuing modernisation of the E30 line will allow a direct Silesia - Podkarpacie connection, increasing the number of train pairs between Katowice and Krakow from one to eight.

The new TLK Nogat service will connect Elbląg and Warsaw with a travel time of less than four hours.

A new TLK Słupia service will be introduced on the Łódź - Warsaw - Kołobrzeg route, improving access to Central Pomerania. A new TLK Roztocze service will provide a connection between Chełm and Katowice, running via Rzeszów and Kraków.

A new TLK Konopnicka service between Zielona Góra and Warsaw will have a journey time of 7h 15min, while Zgorzelec will also gain access to the PKP Intercity network, with the Warsaw - Nałkowska service extended to the city.

The completion of modernisation works carried out by Poland’s infrastructure manager PKP PLP will allow the rerouting of some Wrocław - Szczecin services to connect Legnica and Lubin with the PKP Intercity network. The modernisation of line 281 will also result in the Lublin - Warsaw - Wrocław IC Dąbrowska service being directed via Krotoszyn and Milicz. Pisz and Szczytno will also be served by the operator from July 2020, when services from Bialystok to Olsztyn will run via a detour through Giżycko.

Overall, PKP Intercity will introduce trains at 28 additional stations.

From December, six pairs will operate between Łódź Fabryczna and Warsaw Chopin Airport, timed in conjunction with LOT Polish Airlines services.

International offer

The operator will also expand its international offer, including the frequency of connections between Poland and Belarus. The number of trains from Warsaw to Brest will increase from one to three pairs a day. The IC Batory from Budapest and Prague will include through carriages to Moscow, while IC Mickiewicz will connect Warsaw and Brest, Belarus, with a train to Minsk.

TLK Rozewie will provide a year-round connection to Zilina in Slovakia, with daily connections from the Tri-City, Bydgoszcz, Poznań, Wrocław and Katowice.

The south of Poland will be better connected with the Czech Republic and Austria following the launch of two new international connections. IC Porta Moravica will connect Przemyśl - Krakow - Katowice - Rybnik - Ostrava - Vienna - Graz. TLK Galicja, previously operating as an IC service between Przemyśl and Krakow, will take the longer Przemyśl - Kraków - Katowice - Racibórz - Ostrava route. There will also be more seasonal trains to the Czech Republic, with TLK Wydmy, TLK Wolin and TLK Pirat connecting with Hel, Łeba, Kołobrzeg and Świnoujście.