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Today I’m taking Poland’s flagship premium high-speed train for a quick journey between the two major cities of Kraków and Warsaw in first class. So join me in this video to experience Poland’s railways at their best.
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Train type: ED250 Alstom New Pendolino
Route: Krakow – Warsaw – ( Gdansk/Gdynia)
Train: EIP 3506
Distance: 293km
Journey time: 2h26m
Average speed: 120 km/h
Price: 142,50 PLN ~34€
00:00 Intro
00:32 Krakow Main Station
01:40 Polish Trains
02:26 PKP Pendolino High Speed Train
03:10 Depature from Krakow
03:38 Route Map
04:09 First Class Service
04:43 CMK (High-Speed Line sort off..)
05:58 First Class Seats
06:52 Scenery and Wifi
07:19 Train Tour (Bikes, Food, Seats)
09:28 Approaching Warsaw
09:54 Tickets
10:20 Warsaw Western Station (Zachodnia)
10:44 Final Thoughts
11:04 Warsaw Central Station
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20 Comments
People don't use it because it is too expensive.
I don't think Pendolino should be described as a "flagship" train. I know that Pendolino looks good and is fast (although this is largely due to priority dispatching), but there are many trains and railcar types in Poland that offer more space, privacy, and comfort. 🤷
I`m not sure if I`m crazy but it feels like you were talking a little slower in this video. Still enjoyed it and great video as always though!
Going to try it from Warsaw to Gdansk in September I'm excited
Great video Simon. Also will you post one day a video of travelling in the greek railway when our alstom coradia stream's arrive?
I hate these trains. Back to the old good days you could smoke and drink, play cards and guitar, sing a anti-communist songs. The journey lasted longer but was way much entertaining.
Just to be clear, ERTMS is not the signalling system here, this is ETCS. ERTMS is the whole of ETCS, GSMR (FRCMS in the future) and TSI rules and regulations.
I hope they repair the CMK and bring 200 kmh Topspeed back. Now it's mostly just for 160 kmh. I hope it's getting better soon
142,50 for first class on this route seems incredible. I have student discount (50%) and I still have to pay like 90 for 2nd class most of the time
I'm missing your happy face talking into the camera.
Was interesting to see how Poland is doing with their "high speed" trains given currently undergoing Rail Baltic project that eventually should connect also to Poland and create this magical corridor for trains from Portugal up to Finland?
Seems that Poland is doing as good as Baltic countries – rail is there but high speed is not. In addition to that I bet Poland overpaid quite a lot for a train that can go 250 km/h and does only 160 km/h and probably will not function for too long when potentially higher speeds will be available on route.
Still hope to see one day an option for such a long distance train ride similar to one you did by bus.
Absolutely love how polish trains almost always leave on time.
4:35 Such luxury that the coffee is actually served in a real cup and not in some horrible paper or plastic – same goes for the food on a real plate a little later.
Wait! The train displays Chopin's music when it arrives at the station?
Compartment is called family room
7:46 It remember's me of the Old ÖBB Railjet's 2nd class trains (:…. . . . . . .. … . <3).
Now vmax in CMK is 200 km/h in some parts of the line.
Hi, the owner of Regiojet went on the Metrobus podcast and he basically said, that PKP were undercutting Regiojet when they had similar departure times, so that is going to the anti monopoly institute. Plus they still have not got a proper depo, which they bought from PKP cargo, which has not been handed off yet. Couple that with a lack of employees and they could not stay on the Polish market for long, but they do want to return. Btw, on that same podcast, he said that there will be a line from Prague to Munich, so we wont have to deal with Alex anymore 🙂
Overall a really solid train. Having the second class reading light installed between the seats is quite unusual, normally you only find that in first class. I am wondering why the seat pocket was designed that way. Was it primarily designed to fit some railway magazine, or these paper folders, that show your journey and connections? Or maybe also with newspapers in mind?
Was the Chopin melody at the end part of the announcement?
must've been an old video as the store @ 1:13 is being renovated for bout a month now lolol