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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ed74-005 at Wroclaw: Thecarguy257· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ED74-008, Warszawa Grochów, 2014-07-31: Muri· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. ED74 Innotrans: PetrS.· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. ED74 wnętrze 1 klasa: Yusek· Public domain
- 5. Sprzeg ED74-010 i 007: Swisstack· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. PESA ED74-003, PKP Przewozy Regionalne (16017972961): Janusz Jakubowski from Warsaw, Poland· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Bydgostia: Brücke-Osteuropa· Public domain
- 8. ED 250 passing ED 74 PKP in Opoczno Południowe (26624446965): Adam Piotr Zajac· CC BY 2.0
- 9. ED74 010 in Poznan Gl: MOs810· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. ED74 Polish electric multiple unit: Tmechatronik· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Pesa Bydgostia (type 16WEk designated as series ED74, with car types 310Bak, 411Bak, 411Bbk, and 310Bbk) is a four-car standard-gauge electric multiple unit of Polish production, manufactured by Pesa Bydgoszcz upon order from Polregio, with a total of 14 units produced. In December 2008, they were transferred to PKP Intercity. The train set is a developmental version of the Pesa Acatus train.
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
- 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 26 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 80.3 m long: about 18 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 14
- kind
- electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- Pesa
- operators
- PKP Intercity
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- electric system
- 3 kV DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo’2’2’2’Bo’
- length
- 80.3 m
- weight
- 159 t
- capacity
- 8 passengers
- Dutch name
- PKP ED 74
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q645517, Wikipedia: Pesa Bydgostia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.