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111Ed-001, photographed at the InnoTrans fair in Berlin on
September 20, 2012. Photo by Chris West (thanks for permission!).
The
same locomotive during service tests with Lotos Kolej. Zduńska
Wola Karsznice, May 23,
2013.
The
first 111Ed, exhibited at the TRAKO 2013 fair; Gdańsk,
September 24, 2013.
Another
picture from Chris West (used by permission): prototype 111Eb-001 on display
at the TRAKO 2015 fair, Gdańsk, September 22, 2015, sporting
the Koleje Mazowieckie livery.
Prototype 111Eb-001 with a Koleje Mazowieckie train, photographed at the Warszawa Wschodnia station
on September 17, 2017.
111Ed-035
from the Lotos Kolej fleet, photographed
near Warszawa Okęcie station on March 13, 2023.
111Ed,
operated by LTG Cargo Polska, photographed near Warszawa Żerań station on July 6, 2023.
Another
one operated by a private operator: 111Ed-016, Alza Cargo, Koluszki,
July 13, 2023.
111Ed-031,
leased by Cemet S.A. from Rail Capital
Partners;
Warszawa Praga station, August 29, 2024. |
Type 111Ed, designed and built by Bydgoszcz-based Pesa company, is an entirely new four-axle
single-system universal electric locomotive, the first one in Poland fitted
with an auxiliary generator driven by a diesel engine. It was developed at
the manufacturer’s risk and intended for both PKP and private
operators as an replacement for old and obsolescent locomotives, of which
many are still in use. Type 111Ed was the first locomotive of the entire
family, with commercial name ‘Gama’, to include both single-system (3 kV DC)
and multi-system vehicles, the latter with maximum speed of 160 and 190 km/h,
as well as a diesel-electric one, initially intended to be powered by an
unspecified engine rated at about 2200 kW. The latter materialized in 2014 as
type 111Db, with 2400 kW MTU power
unit. Prototype 111Ed, officially named ‘Marathon’ due to declared
range with power supplied by the auxiliary generator, was shown at the InnoTrans
international fair in Berlin in September 2012. Later it underwent tests in
Bydgoszcz, Poznań and Żmigród.
During these tests new locomotive attained 173 km/h and, except from few
remarks concerning control panel layout, was found entirely satisfactory. In
January the locomotive began service trials with Lotos
Kolej. On March 1 tests with PKP InterCity
were commenced, 111Ed hauling passenger and express trains between Warsaw and
Kraków, later also Poznań,
Gdynia and Wrocław. After minor modification at the
Pesa works it returned to Lotos Kolej for
further tests. Current Pesa offer includes as many as nine distinct versions,
namely: -
111Ea – 3
kV DC, freight; -
111Eb – 3
kV DC, universal; -
111Ec – 3
kV DC with auxiliary diesel, freight; -
111Ed – 3
kV DC with auxiliary diesel, universal; -
111Ee – 3
kV DC, 15 kV and 25 kV AC, freight; -
111Ef – 3
kV DC, 15 kV and 25 kV AC, universal; -
111Eg –
3kV DC, 6000 kW, passenger; -
111Eh – 3
kV DC, 15 and 25 kV AC, 6000 kW, passenger; -
111MS –
1.5 kV and 3 kV DC, 15 kV and 25 kV AC, 6400 kW, passenger. Until now, only two of them have reached the
production stage. First firm order was placed in April 2014 by Koleje Mazowieckie,
for two locomotives in the 111Eb variant. They were delivered in December and
are operated solely in passenger traffic, with new push-pull type drafts also ordered from Pesa. 111Eb-001 was displayed
at the TRAKO 2015 fair in Gdańsk in September 2015. Two more 111Ebs were purchased
in 2016 by PHU Lokomotiv
and sold to Industrial Division in
September 2017. In April 2015 prototype 111Ed-001 was purchased by Ecco Rail private operator, to be sold to PHU Lokomotiv a
few months later. This locomotive was later also sold to Industrial Division. Currently (April 2022) the latter company
still owns three 111Es, which have been leased to several private operators. Apart
from above-mentioned prototype, 37 111Eds have been built. Of these,
111Ed-030, delivered in July 2021, was purchased by Pol-Miedź Trans and still remains in
use with this operator. The remaining 36 examples were ordered by Rail Capital Partners, a
Bydgoszcz-based leasing company co-owned by PESA. They have seen service with several Polish private
operators, including Alza Cargo, Bahnoperator Polska, Captrain Polska, JSW Logistics, KOLTAR, Lotos Kolej, LTG Cargo Polska,
Olavion, Orlen Kol-Trans, Pol-Miedź Trans,
PPM-T (a track maintenance company)
and PUK Kolprem.
At least one example saw a brief service with PKP Cargo. In July 2021 three 111Eds were ordered by PCC Intermodal. Further orders may
follow. During InnoTrans 2016
international fair in Berlin letters of intention were signed by Pesa and two Czech operators, EP Cargo and LocoTrain, which intended to
place their orders. Until now, however, these orders have failed to
materialize. Main
line electric locomotive with auxiliary generator is a comparatively new
concept. Locomotives with such arrangement have been offered by Siemens (Vectron AC Last Mile) and Bombardier (TRAXX F140
AC – German class 187). It has to be noted, however, that due to low speed
and short range (about 40 km) type 111Ed will probably be of little use with
passenger trains in conditions other than exceptional. Type 111E is the
second new electric locomotive of indigenous design, built in Poland since
completion of the last EP09 at Pafawag in
1997, and the first one from Pesa. Currently
Pesa, formerly a railway stock repair
establishment (founded in 1851), is the largest manufacturer of rail vehicles
in Poland, which has so far supplied over 100 EMUs for various operators and
has large orders from Russia and Germany. Main
technical data – 111Ed
Note: auxiliary generator driven by the Caterpillar
C15 ACERT diesel engine rated at 403 kW. 1)
All variants, until April 2022. 2)
With power supplied by the diesel-driven generator. References and
acknowledgments
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Article
by Dariusz Kalinowski (SK vol. 7/2013); -
www.kolejowaklatka.org (website
by Marek Dąbrowski); -
www.pesa.pl; |
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