Overview
- The service change takes effect with the December 14, 2025 timetable, increasing direct round trips between the countries from 11 to 17.
- Berlin–Warsaw gains a seventh daily train pair, creating roughly two-hourly service with journeys of just over five hours.
- A new daytime Leipzig–Wrocław–Kraków route will run twice daily in each direction, with one train extended to Przemyśl on the Polish–Ukrainian border.
- Overnight options add a Berlin–Przemyśl EuroCity and a Berlin–Chełm link via Łódź and Warsaw, while the Munich–Warsaw night train gets extra coaches serving Munich–Kraków–Przemyśl.
- Coordinated transfers in Leipzig are set to cut travel times from Munich, Nuremberg and Frankfurt to southern Poland by about two hours.