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]
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| Type | joint-stock company |
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| WSE: NWG | |
| Industry | Railway rolling stock manufacturer |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Headquarters | Nowy Sącz, Poland |
Key people | Zbigniew Konieczek (President of the Board) |
| Products |
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| Revenue | 1,325,866,000 zł[1] (2020) |
| 169,139,000 zł[1] (2020) | |
Number of employees | 1,447[1] (2020) |
| Website | www.newag.pl |
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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 | |||||||||
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| 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 |
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| electric locomotives | |||||||||
| E4MSU Griffin |
E4DCU-DP Griffin |
E6ACT Dragon |
E6DCF-DP Dragon |
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| trams | |||||||||
| 126N Nevelo |
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| 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
- "Newag Annual Reports" (in Polish).
- "Newag tram rolls onto the streets of Kraków". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
- "New test track at NEWAG". Newag. 26 November 2020.
