Poland

7th May 2010

"We’ve been backed into a corner, we can’t keep on giving credit to the passenger carriers,”

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Large numbers of regional train services were axed this week as a result of an escalating row over payments between the operator, Inter Regio, and Polish Railtrack, with swingeing cuts also likely to follow on Intercity trains in the near future. The root of the problem is debt; Inter Regio owes Railtrack PLN 130 mln for 2009 and is already PLN 106 mln in arrears this year.

“There’s no money coming into our account and that’s the cause of the situation. We’ve been backed into a corner, we can’t keep on giving credit to the passenger carriers,” Railtrack boss Zbigniew Szafranski told reporters this Wednesday. He was at pains to emphasize that only the Regional Carriers and PKP Inte ...

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