Warsaw: SiltaNews – News Desk
Travellers in Poland can arrive in the scenic Tatra Mountains more quickly thanks to a new high-speed rail connection. Polish rail company PKP Intercity announced on Friday that the new connection will begin running on December 14, linking the Polish port of Gdynia, one of the northernmost cities in Poland, to Zakopane in the country’s far south.
The train journey will take seven hours, according to PKP Intercity, and will pass through Warsaw and Kraków, with an additional stop in the northern port city of Kołobrzeg in the summer months. The stretch from Kraków, a tourism hotspot in Poland, onward to the Tatras will be just under two hours. A spokesperson for the Tatra Chamber of Commerce, a regional business association, said: “This is undoubtedly a long-awaited connection in Zakopane. The first high-speed Pendolino train has already made a test run at Zakopane station.”
Some passengers will also be able to experience part of the connection early, with a special same-day return promotional ride scheduled from Warsaw to Zakopane on October 18. Over 100 kilometers of tracks and other railway infrastructure in the Tatra Mountains region were modernized as part of a 1.4 billion złoty (€328.5 million) investment project in December 2023, paving the way for the high speed train connection.