EU43II and
EU47
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EU43-004 (Bombardier 34343/2007),
photographed at the Poznań Franowo station on October 28, 2008.
EU43-003 (Bombardier 34334/2007), Poznań Główny station, March 8, 2008. Photo by Marek Dąbrowski
(thanks for permission!).
FS (Trenitalia Regionale) class E464 is a single-cabin variant of
the basic design. This E464.280 was photographed at the Trieste Centrale
station on October 5, 2008.
In late 2009, E186 147-5 was leased by Lotos Kolej
from Railpool.
This picture was taken at the Zduńska Wola Karsznice station on November 23,
2009.
Severe winter 2010: E186 141-8, PKP
Przewozy
Regionalne, photographed in Katowice with the 36122 train.
Photo by Ryszard Rusak (thanks for permission!).
Another TRAXX used by PKP Przewozy Regionalne:
E186 143-4, photographed at the Warszawa Wschodnia station on February 24,
2010.
E186 135-0, operated by DB; photo
taken in Rzepin on May 15, 2009.
E186 139-2, leased by Lotos
Kolej; Zduńska Wola Karsznice, April 6,
2010.
Two more locomotives from the Lotos Kolej
fleet, photographed at the same location: E186 137-6. May 19, 2010…
…and E186 145-9, two days later.
The same location: E186 136-8, July 12, 2010.
Another picture of the E186 137-6, taken at the
same location on August 30, 2010.
E186 271-3, also from the Lotos Kolej
fleet, photographed at the same location two days later.
Next visit to Karsznice: May 11, 2011. E186 139-2…
…and E186 276-2.
The same location, September 9, 2011: E186 139-2, Lotos Kolej.
EU47-005 ‘Stanisław Koniecpolski’, Koleje
Mazowieckie, photographed at the Warszawa
Wschodnia station on October 13, 2011. Plate
bearing the individual name can be seen below the small window in the side
wall.
On the following day, I took a picture of the
EU47-009 ‘Jan Amor Tarnowski’ at the TRAKO 2011 Fair in Gdańsk.
Cab interior of the EU47-009.
Side drawing of the P160DC; source: Bombardier
folder.
A lineup of four locomotives: E 186 276-2, E 186
275-4, E 483 253 and E 483 252, with a SM42 between, from the Lotos Kolej
fleet; Zduńska Wola Karsznice, November 17, 2011.
E 186 273-9, the same location, December 19, 2011…
…and E 483 258, two days later.
E186 272-1, Photographed in Tomaszów Mazowiecki on
April 10, 2012.
Back to Zduńska Wola Karsznice: E 483
252, June 25, 2012.
Another locomotive from the Lotos Kolej
fleet: E 186 275-4, photographed in Koluszki on July 23, 2012.
EU47-003 ‘Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski’ arrives at the
Warszawa Wschodnia station on April 17, 2013.
The same location and exactly one month later:
EU47-009 ‘Jan Amor Tarnowski’ again.
Back to Zduńska Wola Karsznice:
E483-254 operated by Lotos Kolej, July 5,
2013.
The same location and operator, August 21, 2013:
E186 146-7.
EU47-001 ‘Jan Karol Chodkiewicz’, photographed at
the Warszawa Falenica station on September 14, 2013.
Austrian 185 528-7 (LTE),
photographed in Wels on August 9, 2006. Photo by Ernst Wolf (from my
collection).
Zduńska Wola Karsznice again:
E483.256, Lotos Kolej, May 3, 2014.
E186 250 from the Orlen
KolTrans fleet displays an interesting livery variant:
Warszawa Okęcie siding, October 9, 2014.
The same day: EU47-006 ‘Hetman
Mikołaj Potocki’, operated by Koleje Mazowieckie, enters Warszawa Wschodnia station.
The same locomotive, photographed at the Warszawa
Wschodnia station on June 14, 2015.
The same operator and the same location: EU47-004
‘Hetman Mikołaj Kamieniecki’, October 8, 2015.
EU47-006 at the Warszawa Wschodnia station again,
this time on the cloudy and rainy day of January 28, 2016.
EU47-009 again;
Warszawa Wschodnia station, April
14, 2016.
The same location and date: E186 275-4…
… and E186 143-4, both owned by Railpool and
leased to DB Fernverkehr.
Warszawa Wschodnia again: EU47-008 ‘Mikołaj Sieniawski’, February
2, 2017.
The same locomotive, photographed at the Warszawa Olszynka Grochowska depot on
March 21, 2024.
Warszawa Wschodnia again:
EU47-010 ‘Hetman Jan Zamoyski’, September 17, 2017.
And once again: EU47-004 ‘Hetman Mikołaj Kamieniecki’, October
12, 2017.
E483 255, owned by Railpool and
operated by Lotos Kolej,
derailed in Gniezno on October 23, 2017. Source: www.kurierkolejowy.eu.
EU47-006 ‘Hetman Mikołaj Potocki’, Koleje Mazowieckie, Warszawa Wschodnia station, September 11, 2017.
The same location: EU47-011 ‘Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski’, also
operated by Koleje Mazowieckie. August
18, 2021.
The same operator and location: EU47-010 ‘Hetman
Jan Zamoyski’, September 23, 2022.
Presentation of the TRAXX MS3 at the Bombardier premises in Kassel, Germany; July 5, 2018. Source:
www.bombardier.com.
E483-253 Orlen KolTrans, Zduńska Wola Karsznice, July 13,
2023.
EU47-009 one more
time: Warszawa Wschodnia station,
June 6, 2024. |
Almost eight
years after PKP finally gave up the purchase of eight EU43s, already
completed by ADtranz Pafawag
of Wrocław (factory type 112E), this designation
re-appeared in the company rosters. This time it was assigned to six TRAXX
F140MS locomotives, built by Bombardier Transportation. TRAXX
commercial name (an acronym of Transnational Railway Applications
with eXtreme fleXibility) refers to a family of modern
locomotives, both electric and diesel. Its starting point was DB class
145, built by ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, which appeared in 1997
and was later built in series (80 examples, plus 22 for private operators).
This type was later developed into classes 185 (freight, 2001) and 146
(passenger, 2002), when ABB Daimler-Benz (later ADtranz
DaimlerChrysler Rail System) had already been absorbed by Bombardier
Transportation. In 2003 a commercial name TRAXX was devised – and
retroactively applied – for them, as well as for the entire family of
locomotives characterized by modular design and many common sub-assemblies. Individual
types from the TRAXX family are identified with a letter (F for freight, P
for passenger) and numerical symbol initially indicating maximum service
speed (140 or 160 km/h) and then traction engine suspension type (nose-suspended
or hollow shaft, respectively). Two more sub-families were initially
envisaged (indicated H for heavy-haul and S for high-speed), but these failed
to materialize. Currently there are four basic sub-families, namely: -
TRAXX AC (15 kV/16 2/3 Hz or 25 kV/50 Hz): F140AC1,
F140AC2, P160AC1 and P160AC2 – last digit 2 distinguishes later variant with
modified current converters and air-conditioning system, as well as numerous
minor improvements); -
TRAXX DC (3 kV DC): F140DC, F160DC and P160DC; -
TRAXX MS (multi-system 15 kV/16 2/3 Hz or 25 kV/50
Hz and 3 kV or 1.5 kV DC): F140MS; -
TRAXX DE (diesel-electric): F140DE and P160DE. These
locomotives were initially ordered by DB (classes 146, 146.1, 146.2,
185 and 185.2), SBB and BLS (classes Re 482, Re 484, Re 485 and
Re 486) and RENFE (class S253, 1668 mm track). Hungarian MÁV (class 480) and PKP followed later. Apart from these national operators
they were supplied to a number of private railways and leasing companies. Until
late 2008, according to lists given in SK, 737 electric and 21 diesel
locomotives were delivered or ordered, with several more orders likely to
follow. The majority was composed of DB classes 185 (F140AC1, 200
built) and 185.2 (F140AC2, 200 ordered, 164 delivered until March 2009). All
were built at the former Henschel plant in
Kassel, only F140DCs were built in series by former ABB Tecnomasio (later ADtranz
Italia) plant in Vado Ligure.
All bodies were manufactured in Wrocław. Mention
must also be made of FS (Trenitalia Regionale)
class E464, which is a ‘scaled-down’ single-cabin variant of the TRAXX DC,
rated at 3000 kW. This class was selected as the basic locomotive for
regional passenger traffic, as many as 538 examples being ordered in 2000.
Further orders brought their total number up to 688 examples, scheduled for
delivery until 2013. Other derivatives of the basic design included types
ALP46 (electric) and ALP45DP (diesel, single-cabin) for New Jersey Transit (USA) and Exo
(Canada), as well as type 23E for Transnet
Freight Rail (South Africa – 1067 mm track). Third
generation of the TRAXX family was first presented by Bombardier in May 2011. This variant differs in several
modifications, aimed at improving performance and maintainability, as well as
body details. First orders came from private operators. In 2015 Israel Railways ordered the P160AC3
variant (63 examples, with an option for further 32). First
two-system TRAXX F140MS locomotives were delivered in May 2004 for Swiss SBB
railways, but their largest recipient was Angel Trains Cargo (ATC
– now Alpha Trains) leasing company, which since March 2005 has taken
the delivery of 78 examples (out of 159 built), classed E186. In February
2007, E186 126 (s/n 34305/2006) underwent first tests in Poland and in
November six locomotives were leased by PKP Cargo from Alpha Trains,
since 2009 known as Angel Trains, for three years (later extended to
four). They arrived in December 2007 and January 2008 and were classed EU43;
all were based at the Poznań Franowo
depot. Initially, until April 2008, four of them ran with passenger trains,
but later all were used exclusively in freight traffic between Poland (Poznań) and Germany (Seddin
near Berlin). All were returned between January and March and replaced in the
PKP Cargo fleet by class 189, leased from MRCE Dispolok. In
April 2008 two more locomotives of this type, E186 136 and 137, owned by CB
Rail, were leased to ITL Polska of Wrocław (a subsidiary of Dresden-based Import
Transport Logistik), with the intention to
establish freight traffic to and from Rotterdam. Five more followed in May
2009 (E186-138, -140, -242, -243 and -244), but all were later returned. In
November 2009 Lotos Kolej
leased E186-147 from Railpool GmbH;
next February a contract was signed for leasing five more examples of the
F140MS, which arrived in March – their included ex-CB Rail -136 and
-137. They have been the first brand-new electric locomotives in the
company’s fleet, which has hitherto relied on elderly ex-ČD 181s and
182s. Next last recipient of the TRAXX locomotives was PKP Przewozy Regionalne (now Polregio):
three examples (also leased from Railpool:
E186-141, -143 and -145) arrived between December 2009 and January 2010, but
in March all were transferred to Lotos Kolej. On April 20, 2010, Bombardier received
an order from Koleje Mazowieckie
for eleven P160DC single-system locomotives, to be operated with new
push-pull drafts. Deliveries were completed in August 2011 and new
locomotives were designated EU47 – in fact, EU11 would have been more
appropriate, but KM do not have to comply with PKP designation
system. They were also given individual names, for the first time in the
history of Polish railways, at least officially. All were named after famous
Polish hetmans (high-rank military commanders of old times), hence the entire
class is referred to as ‘Hetman’. On July 26, 2010, Lotos
Kolej decided to lease six more examples from Railpool and extend the lease of eight already in
use until December 2015. Pol-Miedź Trans
also ordered two F140DCs, which arrived in January 2011 (numbered E483.201
and E483.202). Exact
number of ‘Polish’ TRAXX locomotives is virtually impossible to determine, as
most of them remain the property of various leasing companies and often
change their operators. Currently (February 2023) Pol-Miedź Trans has two examples (class
E483) and Koleje Mazowieckie
– eleven (see above). Between 2007 and 2012 PKP Cargo had six examples, classed EU43 (leased from Alpha Trains). In October 2021 this
operator leased two more examples from Akiem,
retaining their original service numbers (class 186); two more are operated
by PKP Cargo International a.s., its Czech subsidiary. List of Polish companies
that operate leased TRAXX locomotives is quite long: -
PCC
Intermodal: 7 (including two TRAXX 3s), -
Captrain Polska:
7, -
Transchem: 6, -
LTG
Cargo Polska: 1, -
JSW
Logistics: 1, -
PKP
Cargo: 2, -
PKP
Cargo International: 2, -
CTL
Logistics: 1, -
Lotos Kolej:
9 (including two TRAXX 3s) – merging with Orlen in 2023, -
Inter
Cargo: 1, -
LTE
Polska: 1, -
PUK
Kolprem: 1, -
DB
Cargo Polska: 4
(including two TRAXX 3s), -
CD
Cargo Poland: 5 (including four TRAXX 3s), -
CIECH
Cargo: 5 (including three TRAXX 3s), -
Orlen KolTrans:
13 (including seven TRAXX 3s), -
Olavion: 1
(TRAXX 3). Together
with those owned by Koleje Mazowieckie
and Pol-Miedź
Trans this gives eighty examples, including 21 TRAXX 3s; moreover, a few
dozen examples that were once operated by Polish companies have already
changed hands. This number will certainly fluctuate. In
October 2009 Lotos Kolej
ordered six examples of the TRAXX F140DE diesels, plus optionally four
more. Deliveries began in mid-2011. This type is described under a separate
entry. In July 2018 Bombardier
Transportation announced that total production of locomotives of the
TRAXX family exceeded 2 200 examples. In January 2021 Bombardier was taken over by Alstom. Main
technical data (TRAXX MS and DC)
1)
All variants, as of February 2023. 2)
Germany and Austria, also P160DC of Koleje Mazowieckie
/ Poland. 1)
As of February 2023. 2)
Only 3000 V DC in P160DC References and
acknowledgments
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Monographic article by Ryszard Rusak (SK vol.
2/2009 and 3/2009); -
Article
by Paweł Terczyński (SK vol. 4/2010); -
Article
by Marek Graff (Technika Transportu
Szynowego vol. 12/2020); -
www.bombardier.com, www.kolejowaklatka.org,
www.railwayfaneurope.net, www.ilostan.forumkolejowe.pl; -
Ryszard Rusak and Marek Dąbrowski (private
communication – thanks for the photos!); -
SK, various issues. |
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