Pesa to construct fuel locomotives for PKP Intercity

Pesa Bydgoszcz, a Polish heavy rail constructor will provide PKP Intercity, a Polish railway passenger transportation company, with 10 internal combustion locomotives, reports ISBnews agency on Thursday. The transaction value will be PLN 131.2 million, announced PKP Intercity. Pesa was also obliged to maintain the locomotives for a period of 12 years least. The locomotives, with their power amounting to 2.4 MW, will drive trains to a maximum velocity of 140 km/h and will stay in accordance with the emission standard STAGE IIIB, as well as safety norms. The vehicles will allow PKP Intercity to use tracks that lack an overhead power line. Seventy percent of the transaction value, which will be carried out as of August 2015, was subsidized by a subsidy program. Currently, Pesa constructs 20 electric multiple units and modernizes 150 railroad cars for PKP Intercity.