Polregio

POLREGIO
legal form	Sp. Z oo
founding	January 1, 2001
Seat	Warsaw , Poland
management	CEO : Krzysztof Zgorzelski;
Number of employees	6,860 (September 2018)
Branch	Railway companies
Website	www.polregio.pl

POLREGIO sp. z oo (formerly PKP Przewozy Regionalne , PKP Przewozy Regionalne ) is a railway company in Poland , which is responsible for local and interregional passenger transport. The company was created by spinning off a subsidiary of the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Train types

Region (R): local passenger train, 2nd class only, stops at all stations
InterRegio (IR): cheap inter-regional express train, only 2nd class, only stops at medium-sized and larger stations; since September 1, 2015 only on the routes Łódź - Warszawa (Lodz – Warsaw) and Małkinia / Ełk - Hrodna ( BY ).

Shareholding

Until December 22, 2008, the company was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the PKP Group.

2008-2015

old logo

As part of a reform, the Polish tax authorities took over all ownership shares on December 22nd, 2008 and transferred them to the 16 voivodships by decree . As of December 8, 2009, the suffix PKP from the former company name PKP Przewozy Regionalne was also dropped. The voivodships held the following shares in the company until it was restructured again in 2015:

Status: November 27, 2008
Voivodeship	Shares
Voivodeship	absolutely	percentage
Greater Poland	123.243	9.7%
Kuyavian Pomeranian	73,691	5.8%
Lesser Poland	81,315	6.4%
Łódź	72,421	5.7%
Lower Silesia	92,750	7.3%
Lublin	69,880	5.5%
Lebus	45,739	3.6%
Mazovia	171,523	13.5%
Opole	43,198	3.4%
Podlaskie	48.281	3.8%
Pomerania	90.208	7.1%
Silesia	116,890	9.2%
Subcarpathian	62,257	4.9%
Holy Cross	38,116	3.0%
Warmia-Masuria	67,339	5.3%
West Pomerania	73,691	5.8%

The Przewozy Regionalne offered cost-effective competition to the TLK trains of the PKP Intercity with their self-operated InterRegio trains . However, the company largely withdrew from this business area in September 2015 and only offers IR connections between Warsaw and Łódź , which are financed by the Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship .

Since 2015

modernized version of the EN57 series

On September 30, 2015, the state treasury took over 50% and one share in the form of the joint stock company ARP . In return, PR received PLN 770 million from the public purse ; of which 600 million for debt repayment (mainly to the infrastructure operator PKP PLK ) and the rest for restructuring and investments in the vehicle fleet.

After a “rebranding”, the transport company now operates under the “Polregio” brand.