Newag S.A. ronounced: nevagis a Polish company, based in

Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz (; hu, Újszandec; yi, Tzanz, צאַנז; sk, Nový Sonč; german: Neu-Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit. It has ...

, specialising in the production, maintenance, and modernisation of railway

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. The company's products include the

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, 19WE, 35WE types

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s; it has also developed the

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tram.

History

In 1876 the Royal Railway Workshop opened, serving a newly built

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railway line. After the

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the establishment, renamed "1st Class Main Workshop" served

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, 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" ( pl, 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

– three-section low-floor tramcar, currently in service in Kraków *

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– electric multiple unit for urban, suburban or regional services *

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– diesel multiple unit, currently in service in Italy *

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– four-axle electric or diesel-electric locomotive for express passenger and light-medium freight services *

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– 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

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.

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