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Gov't will strive to build Central Transportation Port - PM

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The government will do all it can to build a Central Transportation Port in central Poland, PM Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday at the 2nd Railway Development Congress in Warsaw.

National rail line network operator's investment to grow 30 pct in 2020

PKP PLK, the Polish railway infrastructure manager, plans to increase the value of its investments by 30 percent in 2020 to some PLN 14-15 billion (EUR 3.28-3.52 billion), the company's CEO, Ireneusz Merchel, has told PAP.

Czech rail operator looking to expand in Poland

The Czech Leo Express train operator submitted an application to the Office of Railway Transportation (UTK) for permission to provide commercial train service on the Krakow-Warsaw line, Poland's key rail connection, the Puls Biznesu daily has reported.

Railway passenger traffic on the rise in Poland

Polish rail carriers transported more than 161 million passengers in the first half of 2019, up by over 7 percent from the corresponding period of 2018, the Office of Railway Transportation (UTK) said on Wednesday.

EU grants almost EUR 280 mln for Polish transport investment

Almost PLN 1.2 billion (EUR 280 million) is to be earmarked from EU funds for the modernisation and building of 55 railway stations and construction of the Bolków (southwestern Poland) bypass. EIght contracts were signed in the matter on Tuesday.

Do the locomotion: New train of thought sees introduction of railway+ scheme to improve connections

In addition to providing railway connections to towns that have never had them or lost them, the government wants to prevent existing railway lines from being closed.

Trainspotting: The Secret Life of Warszawa Główna

Walking amid the random assembly of items, one gets the sense of a museum born of a different time; frankly, it feels all the better for it. And alongside the old railway tracks there’s one of the coolest places to hang out, Nocny Market.

The only place to Choo Choo-se: Silesian railway museum is full steam ahead

Railway enthusiasts are in for the time of their lives with the opening of a‘Railway Fever’ exhibition. 

High-speed rail connection with Hungary may boost regional development

Linking Warsaw and Budapest with a high-speed rail connection may change the EU's transport map and have a positive economic impact on the region, Poland's Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk said on Thursday.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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