3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ET41-075 PKPC Bukowno - Olkusz: Petr Štefek· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Et41-001: Andrzej74211· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. IMG 2104 ET41: Tomasz Górny ( Nemo5576 )· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
ET41 (manufacturer's designation: HCP 203E) is the name for a Polish electric locomotive used by the Polish railway operator (PKP). Three such locomotives were briefly rented to the Croatian Railways between 1995 and 1996 and were given the designation HŽ series 1081 there.
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 49 years ago, in 1977.
- 4 MW is about 47 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 28 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 31.9 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1977–1983
- number built
- 200
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- H. Cegielski – Poznań
- operators
- Polish State Railways
- top speed
- 125 km/h
- power
- 4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 3 kV DC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′
- length
- 31.9 m
- weight
- 167 t
- nicknames
- Bolek i Lolek, Łamaniec, Tandem, Jamnik (Dachshund)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q639152, Wikipedia: PKP class ET41 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.