PKP Group is a Polish

Poland

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 conglomerate

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 founded in 2001 from the former single national rail operator, Polskie Koleje Państwowe. The purpose of this change was to match European Union

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 directives of dividing transport service from rail system management and founding separate companies able to sell their service outside the rail business.

It consists of the following companies, of which PKP SA has the dominant position:

Company name	Responsibility
Polskie Koleje Państwowe Polskie Koleje Panstwowe is the dominant railway operator in Poland.The company was founded when the former state-owned operator was divided into several units based on the requirements laid down by the European Union...  S. A.	Dominating company
PKP Intercity PKP Intercity PKP Intercity is a company of PKP Group responsible for long-distance passenger transport. It runs about 350 trains daily, connecting mainly large aglomerations and smaller towns, also servicing most of the international trains....	Intercity passenger transport
PKP Szybka Kolej Miejska	Passenger transport within the Tricity Tricity Tricity is an urban area consisting of three Polish cities: Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot. They are situated adjacent to one other, in a row, on the coast of the Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, in Pomerelia , northern Poland...  conurbation
PKP Cargo PKP Cargo PKP Cargo is a company of the PKP Group in Poland responsible for freight transport. It owns 3,549 locomotives and 50,731 freight wagons. It is the largest railway cargo carrier in Poland, and second largest in the European Union...	Freight transport
PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa PKP LHS PKP LHS is a company of the PKP Group responsible for infrastructure operation and freight transport on the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line. The line runs for about 400 km from the Polish-Ukrainian border in Izow-Hrubieszów to Sławków Południowy ....	Freight transport on the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line
PKP Telekomunikacja Kolejowa PKP Telekomunikacja Kolejowa TK Telekom ex Telekomunikacja Kolejowa is a Polish telecommunications company, belonging to the PKP Group.It is responsible for telecommunications and data transmission for the Polish railways and also serves a number of other companies outside the PKP Group and individual clients...	Rail telecommunication
PKP Energetyka PKP Energetyka PKP Energetyka is a company of PKP Group responsible for supplying Polish railroad operators with electric energy.Was founded after dividing Polskie Koleje Państwowe into several dozens companies to meet European Union Standards....	Rail energetics
PKP Informatyka PKP Informatyka PKP Informatyka is a company of PKP Group responsible for supplying Polish railroad operators with IT technology.The company was founded after dividing Polskie Koleje Państwowe into several dozens companies to meet European Union Standards.- See also :* Transportation in Poland* List of railway...	IT services
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe PKP PLK PKP, Polskie Linie Kolejowe is a company of the PKP Group and is responsible for maintenance of rail tracks, conducting the trains across country, scheduling train timetables and management of railway land....	Rail lines management

In 2011, PKP Group announced plans to privatise some subsidiaries, including:

• PKP Cargo
  PKP Cargo
  PKP Cargo is a company of the PKP Group in Poland responsible for freight transport. It owns 3,549 locomotives and 50,731 freight wagons. It is the largest railway cargo carrier in Poland, and second largest in the European Union...
  
  , a freight operator;
• PKP Energetyka
  PKP Energetyka
  PKP Energetyka is a company of PKP Group responsible for supplying Polish railroad operators with electric energy.Was founded after dividing Polskie Koleje Państwowe into several dozens companies to meet European Union Standards....
  
  , an electricity supplier;
• Polskie Koleje Linowe, which deals with cable cars and funicular
  Funicular
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  s;
• Przedsiębiorstwo Napraw Infrastruktury, an infrastructure maintenance business.

External links

• Online timetable
• PKP Group site on PKP official site
• Group's overview in PDF (Polish
  Polish language
  Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
  
  only)
• Przedsiębiorstwo Napraw Infrastruktury