Newag

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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 zł[1] (2020)
169,139,000 zł[1] (2020)
Number of employees
1,447[1] (2020)
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
Multiple unit ED78
Diesel Locomotive 16D

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]

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
  		31WE
Impuls 		35WE
Impuls 		36WE
Impuls 		37WE
Impuls 		45WE
Impuls 		 
Inspiro
diesel multiple units
36WEhd
  		220M
  		221M
  		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
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[]

  1. ^ a b c "Newag Annual Reports" (in Polish).
  2. ^ "Newag tram rolls onto the streets of Kraków". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  3. ^ "New test track at NEWAG". Newag. 26 November 2020.

External links[]

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