Warszawa 2024-07-11 Electric Freight Locomotive ET21. The ET21 was Poland’s first electric freight locomotive, which was produced in series at the “PaFaWag” factory in Wrocław in 726 units. In 1955, an electric locomotive adapted to pulling heavy freight trains was developed in Poznan on the basis of the experience gained. The product was designated PaFaWag…

Warszawa 14-06-2024 Electric locomotives in Poland. The first electric locomotives in Poland began to be used in 1933, on a section of only 10 km, between Warszawa Wschodnia – Warszawa Zachodnia railway stations. These were locomotives of the EL.100 series, manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers, obtained through Electrical Export, marked in PKP as type E01 and then…

Warszawa 10-06-2024 Electric Locomotives E05/EU20. 2024 In the first years of the existence of the People’s Republic of Poland, communists tried to block the cooperation of PKP and the Polish Railway Industry with Great Britain and Sweden. They destroyed the memory of the electrification of Polish Railway Routes in the 1930s. However, the communists agreed…