Operation
The company's headquarters and the main technical depot are in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. The WKD is standard gauge and electrified at 600 V DC on the overhead system. Train service is provided by two classes of train sets:
- Forty type EN94 six-axle articulated electric units, built between 1969–1972 in Wrocław and normally operated in pairs.
- A single type EN95 ten-axle low-floor articulated electric units, built in 2004 in Bydgoszcz.
The company has on order 14 new units which are scheduled to arrive in 2012.
The line also possesses a vintage type EN80 four-axle electric unit, built by English Electric at Preston in 1927, and a small diesel shunter, obtained second hand from PKP.
On the main line, trains operate every 15 minutes at peak hours and every 30 minutes off-peak, with a service gap between midnight and 05:00. For most of the day, one train an hour runs through to Milanówek Grudów, with most of the other trains running through to Grodzisk Mazowiecki Radońska. All trains stop at all stations on their route, and a journey from Warszawa Śródmieście to Grodzisk Mazowiecki Radońska takes just under one hour.
Within Warsaw's borders, WKD honours day tickets and transit passes issued by the Warsaw Transit Authority.
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