Editing Katowice (section)

==== Long-haul trains ====
Katowice is the main railway hub in southern Poland. Katowice's main railway station is the fifth-busiest train station in Poland as of 2019 (and third outside Warsaw), with 17.6 million passengers and growing 47 percent since 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kolejowego |first=Urząd Transportu |title=Wymiana pasażerska w 2019 r. |url=https://utk.gov.pl/pl/raporty-i-analizy/analizy-i-monitoring/analizy-i-opracowania/16709,Wymiana-pasazerska-w-2019-r.html |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=Urząd Transportu Kolejowego |language=pl}}</ref> 16% of the passengers travelled on [[PKP Intercity]] train, the main long-distance train operator in Poland.

Katowice has a direct [[High-speed rail in Poland|Express Intercity Premium]] (high-speed) connection to [[Warsaw]] through the [[Grodzisk Mazowiecki–Zawiercie railway|Centralna Magistrala Kolejowa]], with a run time of 2 hours 21 minutes. [[PKP Intercity]] also offers direct standard connections to Kraków (under 1 hour), [[Wrocław]], Kielce and [[Ostrava]] (under 2 hours), Warsaw, [[Rzeszów]], [[Olomouc]], and [[Łódź]] (under 3 hours), [[Poznań]] (under 4 hours), [[Brno]], [[Vienna]] and [[Bratislava]] (under 5 hours), as well as [[Prague]], [[Budapest]], and [[Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Niećko |first=Dorota |date=2021-09-06 |title=Pociągiem z Katowic w podróż do miast Europy w kilka godzin i bez przesiadek. Jak kupić bilet na kolejowe połączenie międzynarodowe |url=https://dziennikzachodni.pl/pociagiem-z-katowic-w-podroz-do-miast-europy-w-kilka-godzin-i-bez-przesiadek-jak-kupic-bilet-na-kolejowe-polaczenie/ar/c7-15788918 |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=Dziennik Zachodni |language=pl-PL}}</ref> 
[[File:2024-07 Katowice CP Zawodzie (5).jpg|thumb|''Metrobike'' bicycles in Zawodzie district]]