#3839· PKP locomotieftype EU07

PKP class EU07

🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Pafawag· from 1965· locomotive class

10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences

1. EU07-001: Brill7· CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Tarnow EU07: Andrzej Otrębski· CC BY-SA 4.0
3. EU07-327 Captrain Polska: Daniel Kuczob· CC BY-SA 4.0
4. EU07-348 Poznań RB1: Radomil· CC BY-SA 3.0
5. PKP EU07 between Stare Bojanowo and Górka Duchowna: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
6. Iłża, EU07 of Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP), 1993 (SIK 03-036164): ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Bärtschi, Hans-Peter / SIK_03-036164 / CC BY-SA 4.0· CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Stiopa-EU07-173: Stiopa· CC BY 4.0
8. Tarnow Moscice EU07: Andrzej Otrębski· CC BY-SA 4.0
9. 12.09.95 Warszawa Wschodnia EU07-357 (50587376921): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
10. 15.11.94 Piła Główna EU07-396 (48860542716): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

The PKP class EU07 (designated by Pafawag as the Pafawag 4E and HCP 303E) is the name for a Polish electric locomotive in service on Polish State Railways. It is designed as a mixed-traffic locomotive, and as such is used both in freight and passenger traffic, most notably PKP Intercity.

who runs it

Polish State Railways

base stats

speed 160 km/htop speed
power 2 MWpower output
weight 80 tin working order
built 489made in total

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 61 years ago, in 1965.
Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.

electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.

spec sheet

built: 1965–1994
in service from: 1965
number built: 489
kind: Electric
traction: electric
origin: 🇵🇱 Poland
builders: Pafawag, H. Cegielski – Poznań
operators: Polish State Railways
top speed: 160 km/h
power: 2 MW
gauge: 1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system: 3,000 V DC overhead
wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′
length: 15.9 m
weight: 80 t
nicknames: Siódemka
Dutch name: PKP locomotieftype EU07

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q745200, Wikipedia: PKP class EU07 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.