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English Electric EL.100
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by English Electric· from 1933· class of 6 Polish electric locomotives
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- 1. EL.103 (EP01): Anonymous Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
English Electric EL.100 (Polish designations EP01, EL.100, E100 and E01) was a class of electric locomotives used by the Polish State Railways. Originally built and designed by English Electric as a line engine, it was used in Poland mainly for shunting, as a supplemental engine to ferry steam locomotives across the Warsaw Cross-City Line tunnel, between Pruszków and Otwock. It was the first electric locomotive used in Poland.
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 93 years ago, in 1933.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1936–1964).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1933–1939
- in service from
- 1936
- retired
- 1964
- status
- retired
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- English Electric, Fablok
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 13.6 m
- weight
- 75.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q9249900, Wikipedia: English Electric EL.100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.