Newag

Newag S.A. [pronounced: nevag] is a Polish company, based in Nowy Sącz, specialising in the production, maintenance, and modernisation of railway rolling stock. The company's products include the 14WE, 19WE, 35WE types electric multiple units; it has also developed the Nevelo tram.[2]

Newag S.A.
Typejoint-stock company
WSE: NWG
IndustryRailway rolling stock manufacturer
Founded1876
HeadquartersNowy Sącz, Poland
Key people
Zbigniew Konieczek (President of the Board)
Products
  • locomotives
  • multiple units
  • trams
Revenue1,325,866,000 [1] (2020)
169,139,000 zł[1] (2020)
Number of employees
1,447[1] (2020)
Websitewww.newag.pl
Multiple unit ED78
Diesel Locomotive 16D

History

In 1876 the Royal Railway Workshop opened, serving a newly built Austrian railway line. After the First World War the establishment, renamed "1st Class Main Workshop" served Polish State Railways, employing some 1800 workers in 1922. In post-World War II communist Poland the workshop was nationalised and later became a separate, though still state-owned, enterprise officially called "Nowy Sacz Railway Rolling Stock Repairs Depot in Nowy Sacz, State Independent Enterprise" (Polish: Zakłady Naprawcze Taboru Kolejowego "Nowy Sącz" w Nowym Sączu, Przedsiębiorstwo Państwowe Wyodrębnione), with a workforce of about 3,500 in 1952. The last steam locomotive was serviced in 1972.
After the fall of communism and the economic changes of 1989, the enterprise was transformed into a State Treasury Joint Stock Company, with the Polish state as the only shareholder. The company went through a period of financial turmoil around 2001 and its shares were acquired by a private domestic investor in 2003. The current name was adopted in 2005.

Current products

  • Nevelo – three-section low-floor tramcar, currently in service in Kraków
  • Impuls – electric multiple unit for urban, suburban or regional services
  • Vulcano – diesel multiple unit, currently in service in Italy
  • Griffin – four-axle electric or diesel-electric locomotive for express passenger and light-medium freight services
  • Dragon – six-axle high-power electric or diesel-electric locomotive for heavy freight services

Locomotives and EMU are available with optional last-mile diesel.

Production history

Own production
electric multiple units
14WE
Halny
19WE
 
31WE
Impuls
35WE
Impuls
36WE
Impuls
37WE
Impuls
39WE
 
45WE
Impuls
 
Inspiro
diesel multiple units
36WEhd
 
220M
 
221M
 
222M
 
226M
Vulcano
electric locomotives
E4MSU
Griffin
E4DCU-DP
Griffin
E6ACT
Dragon
E6DCF-DP
Dragon
trams
126N
Nevelo
Modernization
electric multiple units
EN57 EN71
electric locomotives
EU07
303Eb
EU07
303Ec
EP07P
303Eb
EP09
104Ec
EM10
405Em
3E-100
 
ET22
201El
ET22
201Ek
ET22
201Em
EL2
 
diesel locomotives
6Dg 6Dl 15D/16D 18D 311D

Test track

The company has set up an electrified, 245 metre long test track to test the electric rolling stock it manufactures or modernises. The overhead can be supplied with any of the four systems, commonly used on European railways: 1.5 and 3 kV DC, 15 kV 16.7 Hz and 25 kV 50 Hz.[3]

References

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