EW51 PKP

Polish EMU created in 1936 by HCP in Poznań, Wagon Factory in Sanok and LRL (Lilpop, Rau, Lowenstein) in Warsaw. It was the first vehicle of this type built in Poland and operated by PKP. The trains themselves were created due to the electrification of the Warsaw suburban railway lines. In 1933, PKP signed a contract with British plants for the supply of electrical components. Two years later, the first prototype was built at the LRL plant (Lilpop, Rau, Lowenstein) in Warsaw. In 1936, production of trains under the designation E91 began. Initially, they served connections on the Pruszków-Warsaw-Otwock line. In 1937, the Polish State Railways had 60 trains, but unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the war and Luftwaffe bombings, only 10 train sets survived. After the war, some of them were renovated and the designation was changed to E51, in 1959 known as EW51. In 1953-54, the GDR factory Waggonbau Gorlitz undertook the modernization of the depots, which were later given the designation EW52. In the years 1970-79 they began to be slowly withdrawn and scrapped. Only one has survived to this day.