Bydgoszcz 2024-03-14 Electric Locomotives PESA Gama. 2024 The PESA Gama electric locomotive is a good return of Polish manufacturers to the construction of locomotives in Poland, which were designed by Polish engineers. After a difficult 90 years of political transformation (without lustration and decommunization), two large manufacturers of rolling stock appeared on the Polish market;…

Kraków 2025-02-28 Electric tram and electric locomotive. Trams interest us as much as they have to do with railways. It can be said that the tram is the forerunner of the electric locomotive. However, this development of railway technology was not that simple. The electric tram is a means of urban transport that revolutionized the…

Kraków 2025-02-27 Post-war electrification in PKP. In Poland, the situation after World War II was bad. Poland was taken over by communists and dependent on Moscow. It was difficult to rebuild the Polish Railway Industry, and the reconstruction of the Warsaw Railway Junction in particular was slow. A statement by one of the Polish communists…

Kraków 2025-02-24 First electric locomotives in Poland at PKP. In the chapter – Electric traction in Poland in PKP. 2021. – we discussed why we have a 3 kV DC power supply in PKP. After the change of power in Poland, on December 13, 2023, the new government abolished the CPK (Central Communication Port) program.…

Kraków 2024-12-07 Siemens Vectron. Photo description: Double pantographs are visible on the roof. Photo description. Siemens Vectron X4E-794 Electric Locomotive with InterCity 3600 WYSPIAŃSKI train Przemyśl Główny – Wrocław Główny. Siemens Vectron is a family of locomotives derived from the Siemens EuroSprinter electric locomotive family. Siemens Vectron are locomotives designed to pull freight and passenger…

Kraków 2024-11-25 Electric Locomotives ET42. The ET42 Electric Locomotive is a heavy electric locomotive, two-unit. The locomotive was designed and manufactured in the Moscow State at the NEWZ Novocherkassk Locomotive Production Plant, under the designation 112E. Production lasted from 1978 to 1982. 50 units were built, only for PKP for Poland. The Muscovites wanted to…

Kraków 2024-11-18 Another speed record for a Polish rail vehicle. October 20, 2023. On the night of October 19-20, 2023, a Polish electric locomotive reached a speed of 240 km/h. The Newag Griffin E4MSUa-001 locomotive on the test track traveled at a speed of 240 km/h, although the locomotive is to be certified for a…

Kołobrzeg 2024-11-13 Electric Locomotive EP07-339. The locomotive was manufactured in 1984, as EU07-339, factory number 303E-239. Reconstruction to EP07 version took place in November 2001, in ZNTK Nowy Sącz. The locomotive went to Zakład Taboru in Gdynia. In July 2007, the locomotive was overhauled in Zakład Taboru in Gdynia. Subsequent inspections and repairs were performed;…

Sędziszów 2024-09-25 Electric Locomotive ET41-193. The ET41 electric locomotive is a standard gauge heavy two-unit electric freight locomotive. The locomotive was developed by Polish designers based on the EU07 electric locomotive. The locomotive was produced in the period 1977-1983, at the HCP plant in Poznań. 200 units were built. The locomotive is popularly called the…

Kraków 2024-09-16 Electric Locomotive PaFaWag EU07-052. The electric locomotive EU07-052, factory number 4E-052, was manufactured in January 1969 at the PaFaWag factory in Wrocław. In February 1969, the locomotive went to MD Dęblin. Then MD Poznań Franowo (July 1975), MT Poznań (July 1997), MZ Poznań (April 1999), Zakład Taboru Poznań (September 1999), PKP Cargo Poznań…