Newag Impuls
| Newag Impuls | |
|---|---|
 Newag Impuls of Koleje Dolnośląskie in Wrocław, Poland | |
| Manufacturer | Newag |
| Family name | Impuls |
| Number built | 203 (additional 47 are on order) |
| Capacity | 107–218 seats |
| Operator(s) | |
| Specifications | |
| Car length | 42.4–113.2 m (139–371 ft) |
| Width | 2.84 m (9 ft 4 in) |
| Height | 4.15 m (13.6 ft) |
| Articulated sections | 2–6 |
| Maximum speed |
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| Power output | 1600–3200 kW for electrics |
| Electric system(s) | 3 kV DC overhead line |
| Current collection method | pantograph |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
Newag Impuls is a family of standard-gauge electric, diesel and bi-mode (hybrid) multiple units manufactured by Polish railway rolling stock manufacturer Newag. Manufactured in several versions, they differ in the number of cars and purpose. Offered are electric 2-car (types 37WE and 37WEa), 3-car (types 36WE, 36WEa, 36WEb, 36WEd), 4-car (type 31WE), 5-car (type 45WE) and 6-car (type 35WE) trainsets, and also diesel and bi-mode 3-car (types 36WEhd and 36WEh, respectively) ones.
By the end of 2020, 190 Impulses were ordered.
Description[]
The Impuls family of trains are low-floor multiple units equipped with a full interior monitoring system, air-conditioning, passenger information system and can have ticket dispensers if requested.
Their interior is suitable for the needs of passengers with reduced mobility. It features sloping floors, folded steps, broad aisles and a designated space for wheelchairs and bicycles. In the vehicle, motor bogies are used as well as Jacobs bogies (mounted between each two cars). The bogies have a modern gear system and two-stage spring suspension systems that effectively muffles vibrations, thus enhancing comfort while travelling.[1]
The trains can be built in various configurations. The two-car variant is known as "37WE", three-car "36WE", four-car "31WE", five-car "45WE" and six-car "35WE". The trains can have interiors equipped for commuter and suburban service but also for use on long-distance routes.[2]
The first design was launched in 2012. One of the trains, produced for Koleje Dolnośląskie, broke the Polish speed record of 211 km/h (131 mph) in 2013 on the test track, on 7 September 2015 a Newag Impuls 45WE unit for Koleje Mazowieckie once again topped this record with what is now the current one, 226 km/h (140 mph), which makes it the fastest passenger train produced in Poland.
Newag launched a second generation of the design, named Impuls II, in 2017 with an order of 14 trainsets from Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna.[3]
The bi-mode version's top speed is 120 km/h in diesel mode and 160 km/h in electric mode.[4]
Usage[]
| Country | Owner | Operator | Type | No. of cars |
Image | Number | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Poland
|
Koleje Dolnośląskie | 31WE | 4 |  |
10 | 2013, 2015 | |
| 36WEa | 3 |  |
6 | 2014–2015 | |||
| 45WE | 5 |  |
11 | 2017 | |||
| 36WEh | 3 | 2 out of 6 | 2021–2022 | ||||
| Koleje Mazowieckie | 45WE | 5 | 
|
12 | 2015 | ||
| Koleje Wielkopolskie | 36WEhd | 3 | 4 | 2020–2021 | |||
| Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna | 36WEd | 3 | 
|
14 | 2018–2019 | ||
| 36WEh | 3 | 0 out of 3 | from 2023 | ||||
| Polregio | 31WE | 4 | 
|
3 | 2017 | ||
| PKP Szybka Kolej Miejska w Trójmieście | 31WE | 4 | 
|
2 | 2016 | ||
| SKM Warszawa | 35WE | 6 | 
|
9 | 2012–2013 | ||
| 31WEba | 4 | 0 out of 15 | from 2022 | ||||
| 45WE | 5 | 0 out of 6 | from 2022 | ||||
| Lesser Poland Voivodeship | Polregio | 36WEa | 3 | 
|
6 | 2014–2015 | |
| Koleje Małopolskie | 31WE | 4 |  |
8 | 2016–2017 | ||
| 45WE | 5 |  |
5 | 2016–2017 | |||
| 31WEb | 4 | 0 out of 9 | from 2021 to 2022 | ||||
| Lublin Voivodeship | Polregio | 37WEa | 2 | 0 out of 9 | from 2021 | ||
| Lubusz Voivodeship | Polregio | 31WE | 4 | 
|
3 | 2014–2015 | |
| 36WEhd | 3 | 2 | 2020 | ||||
| Opole Voivodeship | Polregio | 36WEa | 3 | 
|
7 | 2016–2018 | |
| Pomeranian Voivodeship | Polregio | 45WE | 5 | 
|
10 | 2018–2020 | |
| Silesian Voivodeship | Koleje Śląskie | 35WE | 6 |  |
1 | 2012 | |
| 36WEa | 3 |  |
3 | 2014 | |||
| Polregio | 36WEa | 3 | 
|
3 | 2015 | ||
| Subcarpathian Voivodeship | Polregio | 36WE | 3 |  |
1 | 2013 | |
| 37WE | 2 |  |
2 | 2014 | |||
| 36WEa | 3 |  |
1 | 2015 | |||
| 36WEdb | 3 | 
|
8 | 2020 | |||
| Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship | Polregio | 36WEa | 3 |  |
6 | 2014–2015 | |
| 31WE | 4 | 2 | 2018 | ||||
| Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship | Polregio | 37WE | 2 | 1 | 2015 | ||
| West Pomeranian Voivodeship | Polregio | 31WE | 4 |  |
22 | 2013-2015, 2017–2018 | |
| 36WEa | 3 | 
|
18 | 2017–2018 | |||
| 36WEh | 3 | 
|
4 out of 7 | from 2020 | |||
 Italy
|
Ferrovie del Sud Est | 36WEb | 3 | 
|
11 out of 15 | from 2019 | |
| Country | Owner | Operator | Type | No. of cars |
Image | Number | Year |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Description of Newag Impuls". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
- ^ "Description of Newag Impuls". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
- ^ "First Newag Impuls II EMU nears completion". Railway Gazette International. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Hybrid Multiple Unit | NEWAG SA". Newag. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as at October 2015.
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