The PKP EP07 412 seen at Katowice

After occupying the room directly next to the station - which was sufficiently cheap but still of a satisfactory quality - we decided to take a few night photos at the main station to get a cross-section of the locomotive types running around here. We have immediatly stumbled upon a classic Polish locomotive, the first electric locomotive bought in big quantities after the second World War. To find the best locomotive suiting the needs of PKP many companies sent test locomotives, for example Czechoslovakian Škoda, but eventually English Electric won the contract for 20 EU06 locomotives. When they proved themselves successful Poland bought the license and Pafawag Wroclaw and Cegielski Poznan continued manufacturing them as a slightly more advanced class EU07. This locomotive is a rebuilt version of class EP07 but still it holds the same road number it held in the times of being an EU07 (the computer numbers are completely unrelated for most Polish vehicles to the classical numbering used by most people).