EN57 (manufacturer's designation: Pafawag 5B/6B) is an electric multiple unit used by the Polish railway operator (PKP). It was built for suburban and...
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Polish EMU constructed for the Polish National Railways (PKP). It is based on the three-carriage EN57, but differs in that it has an additional motor carriage...
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well as with the EN57 series, although this was only possible with the lower starting setting that matched the parameters of the EN57 vehicles. The three...
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PKP class EW55 (manufacturer's designation: Pafawag 3B/4B) were standard-gauge, three-car, high-platform electric multiple units produced between 1958...
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Newag in Nowy Sącz, Poland. They are essentially heavily reconstructed PKP class EN57 EMU, of early-1960s vintage, reusing only their underframes. The trainset...
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Polregio (redirect from PKP Przewozy Regionalne)
215 million passengers. The company was founded in 2001 from the splitup of the PKP Passenger Transport Sector of the once-unitary Polskie Koleje Państwowe national...
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passenger exchange, and the absence of steps, which was a major issue with the EN57 units used by Szybka Kolej Miejska, especially for serving lower platforms...
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distance EMU operated by Przewozy Regionalne (PR), based on the ED72 and EN57. Only one unit was built at the Pafawag factory in 1997 and as a prototype...
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with six Newag 14WE EMUs which were an extensive modernization of the PKP class EN57 EMUs commonly used on regional routes at the time, with a modern looking...
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Regionalne (Polregio). Like its cousin (EN71), the ED72 is based on the EN57 and became the basis for its successor: the ED73. Between 1993 and 1997,...
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Masovian Railways had just under 200 PKP class EN57, five EN71 and two EW60. Additionally the company purchased seven DB Class 627 railcars and four 628 diesel...
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– Poland – Osieck rail crash: A head-on collision occurred between PKP class EN57 and a freight train. 25 people were killed, mostly railroad workers...
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Szybka Kolej Miejska (Tricity) (category PKP Group companies)
between Gdańsk Bay and the Tricity Landscape Park. SKM uses mostly PKP class EN57 and EN71 electric multiple unit trains, whose design dates back to 1962...
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identified with the letter 'a' or 'b'. For example, a typical 3-car EMU class EN57 consists of the following cars: ra (trailer car with a driver's cab) s...
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owned by the Free City of Danzig (*) Conversion (*) Conversion (**) Loan PKP classification system History of rail transport in Poland Durrant 1972, p...
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vehicles' in Polish. Pesa is a successor to the Bydgoszcz repair shops of PKP Polskie Koleje Państwowe, Polish State Railways. From the 1950s until 1998...
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Poland mostly uses older electric multiple units (usually ED72, EN71 and EN57), with newer units on some routes (ED73 and ED59 between Warsaw and Łódź...
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catenary is still visible. The last Class 1061 locomotives, along with Class 315 EMUs (a variant similar to the PKP EN57 multiple units) were withdrawn. Part...
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Pesa Atribo (redirect from PKP class SA136)
mainly by Class SA103 and Slawno - Darlowo supported mainly by Classes SA109 and SA110. In case of failure of Western Pomeranian Class EN57, Atribo sets...
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Polish Republic, the company, renamed "1st Class Main Workshop", was redirected to serve Polish State Railways (PKP), employing some 1,800 workers in 1922...
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providers: PKP Intercity - Tanie Linie Kolejowe (TLK) - cheap express trains with optional reservation in the first class, no reservation in second class; some...
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the manufacturer of, among others, the most popular EMU series in Poland, EN57. After privatization in the 1990s, Pafawag ceased the production of such...
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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...
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Railways (PKP, Polskie Koleje Państwowe) which serves the area of Mazovian Voivodeship. Its trains are mostly suburban and middle distant. KM operate EN57 class...
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December 19 – Poland – Świnna rail crash: After losing braking power in EN57-840 EMU operating as passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec, train...
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at Andermatt station, injuring about 30 people. 2 October - Poland - An EN57 electric multiple unit hit a woman passing between platforms 1 and 2 of Pabianice...
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