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PKP class EW55
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Alstom Pojazdy Szynowe· from 1959· electric multiple unit produced in Poland
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Warszawa Zachodnia 1991 186: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. EW55 (1): Frontczak F., Kuczborski S., Kuligowski K., Skoniecki J., Wasilewicz W.· Public domain
- 3. EW55-03 (kadr), Warszawa Śródmieście, 1977: One of: Jerzy Szeliga, Paweł Koślacz, Symeon Surgiewicz, zbiory Centralnego Ośrodka Badań i Rozwoju Techniki Kolejnictwa, Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, Muzeum m.st. Warszawy.· Public domain
what is it?
PKP class EW55 (manufacturer's designation: Pafawag 3B/4B) were standard-gauge, three-car, high-platform electric multiple units produced between 1958 and 1962 in a quantity of 72 units by the Pafawag factory in Wrocław. Starting in 1959, they were directed to Katowice and Warsaw. In 1964, the vehicles ended service in Upper Silesia, and their operation was finally concluded in 1995.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 580 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 63.7 m long: about 14 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 670: 13 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 36 years (1959–1995).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- retired
- 1995
- status
- retired
- number built
- 72
- kind
- electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- Alstom Pojazdy Szynowe, Pafawag
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 580 kW
- length
- 63.7 m
- weight
- 123 t
- capacity
- 670 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11695988, Wikipedia: PKP class EW55 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.