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EU07 (manufacturer's designation: Pafawag 4E and HCP 303E [1] ) is the name for a Polish electric locomotive in service of the Polish railway operator PKP . This locomotive was designed as a mixed traffic locomotive, and as such is used both in freight and passenger traffic.
EU07s have driving cabs at each end of the locomotive. The locomotive is equipped with multiple unit control system, which allows a single driver to drive two coupled engines from one cab. This engine is able to pull passenger trains of up to 650- tonne (640- long-ton ; 720- short-ton ) weight with speed of 125 km/h (78 mph) and freight trains of up to 2,000 t (2,000 long tons; 2,200 short tons) weight with speed of 70 km/h (43 mph). These figures apply to driving on level track.
The EU07 is strongly connected with the EU06 locomotive. The EU06 was a Polish derivative of the Class 83 locomotive built for the British system. In 1959 an agreement was signed with the producer of the EU06, English Electric, under which Poland bought the license for the EU06 and started its production in Pafawag Wrocław, under build number 4E. The first item was finished in 1965, and by 1974 a total number of 240 locomotives had been built. The EU07 locomotives differed slightly from EU06 due to some minor improvements that had been made in comparison to their predecessors.
In 1983 the production of EU07 locomotives was re-opened in Cegielski works in Poznań. This new series of locomotives was based on ET41 freight locomotive (which had been built by joining together two EU07 locomotives of first run production). Bringing several modifications production number changed to 303E. A total number of 243 locomotives were built and the production continued until 1994 despite relatively outdated construction.
All EU07 locomotives were originally fitted with large headlights, called the buckets. After 1990 these have been successively replaced with halogen headlights of smaller diameter. The easiest (and cheapest) way was to put the new headlights inside the "buckets". More elaborate changes included removing the "buckets" and mounting the headlights flush with the body panels for better aerodynamic performance.
EP07 is a later modification of EU07, with changed motors and gear ratios to make them better suited for hauling passenger trains. Modification has been made in several Rolling Stock Repairing Works since 1995. EP07 locomotives retained their original fleet numbers.
EU07A is a very comprehensive modification of EU07 encompassing new motors, power electronics, new brake system, etc. Originally, after evaluating test results, PKP Intercity made a decision not to modify any further units due to unsatisfactory costs versus results ratio but in 2012 ordered further two units. These were delivered in 2014. Further 6 units were to be modified for Przewozy Regionalne but the plans were shelved. [2] In 2020 PKP Intercity signed contract for modification of further 20 EU07s to the EU07A standard. [3]
The following engines are heavily based on EU07:
On 12 August 2011, locomotive number 1034 derailed at Baby, Piotrków County whilst hauling a passenger train from Warszawa Centralna to Katowice. Two passengers were killed and 81 were injured.
EP02 is a name for a Polish electric locomotive. It was made for passenger transport purposes.
The EP05 is a Polish modification of Czech electric locomotive EU05 used by Polish railway operator (PKP).
EU06 is a class of electric locomotives in service with the Polish state railway PKP.
PKP classification system is a system of assigning letters and numbers to series and individual locomotives used by the PKP - Polish national railroad operator.
PKP class EP07 is a class of standard-gauge electric locomotives used primarily for passenger trains in Poland. They are rebuilt EU07 class locomotives, which in turn are the direct successors to the post-war British EU06 series locomotives. The only operators of this locomotive series are PKP Intercity and Polregio.
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ET21 is a name for a Polish electric freight locomotive produced between years 1957 to 1971 in Pafawag. It was the first post-war Polish electric locomotive, designed in 1955. Besides being delivered for PKP, ET21 locomotives were delivered to the mining industry, where they are used up to now.
ET22 is a Polish six-axle electric freight locomotive built by Pafawag from 1969 to 1989. Factory designation is 201E. With 1183 units, it is one of the most numerous standard gauge electric locomotive built in Europe. Further 23 units were built for Morocco as E-1000 class.
ET41 is the name for a Polish electric locomotive used by the Polish railway operator (PKP). Three such locomotives were briefly rented to the Croatian Railways between 1995 and 1996 and were given the designation HŽ series 1081 there.
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The Elf is an electric multiple unit developed by Polish rolling-stock manufacturer Pesa SA. It is intended for commuter and regional service where platform height is 55 cm (22 in). It is based on earlier EMU designs named ED59 and ED74. A Pesa Elf was exhibited at InnoTrans 2010.
Łódź Fabryczna is the largest and most modern railway station in the city of Łódź, Poland. It was originally constructed at the initiative of industrialist Karl Wilhelm Scheibler in 1865. In the old Polish classification of stations it was placed under the B category.
The Grodzisk Mazowiecki–Zawiercie railway better known as the Central Rail Line, designated by Polish national railway infrastructure manager PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe as rail line number 4, is a 224 km (139 mi) long railway line in Poland between Zawiercie outside the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area and Grodzisk Mazowiecki in the suburbs of Warsaw.
The Berlin-Warszawa-Express (BWE) is a cross-border train service that connects Berlin and Warsaw via Frankfurt (Oder), operated jointly by Deutsche Bahn and Polish State Railways. The service, classed as EuroCity, runs four times per day in each direction, with the services given the numbers 40–47. Total journey time is 5 hours, 24 minutes.
HCP Z1 is a series of train carriages constructed by H. Cegielski in Poznań, which meet the UIC-Z1 standard for passenger train carriages. Several types of the wagons in the standard have been built, with over 100 units built. The main user of the carriages is PKP Intercity. The HCP Z1 is also used by the Belarusian Railway and the Polski Tabor Szynowy.
Newag Griffin is a series of Polish four-axle electric and diesel locomotives for working passenger and goods trains, produced by Newag in Nowy Sącz from 2012. The first version, the E4MSU is a mixed-traffic multi-system electric locomotive.
Railway electrification in Poland is the process aimed at increasing the efficiency of railways and improving the railway services offered by supplying Polish railways with electricity and implementing electric rolling stock, which replaces rolling stock with other drives, mainly conventional diesel traction. By the end of the 1970s, thanks to massive electrification and the introduction of a large amount of electric rolling stock into service, it allowed to replace a large number of steam locomotives and older diesel rolling stock. Despite the abandonment of works in the 90s, currently PKP and other entities managing the railway infrastructure, such as PKM or DSDiK, are working on the implementation or are already implementing the electrification of their lines. Currently, the electrification of railways in Poland is aimed at improving rail transport by increasing competitiveness and attractiveness and replacing diesel traction of national importance and saving fuel on regional lines and railways mains such as line 31 from Siedlce to Siemianówka, line 137 from Kędzierzyn-Koźle to Legnica and line 203 from Tczew to Kostrzyn.