PKP class ET42

The locomotives of the series ET42 Polish State Railways ( PKP) are two-part for electric locomotives to haul freight trains.

The third double locomotive for heavy freight service after the ET40 and ET41 addition to the ET42 series was procured from 1978. These are the only electric locomotives PKP that were built in the Soviet Union. They were derived from the series WL10 WL11 and the Soviet railways and built until 1978 in a quantity of 50 locomotives from the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory.

The ET42 is designed as a double locomotives of two identical halves, each with a driving cab. The two Lokhälften marked to distinguish as "A" and "B". The ET42 are the most powerful locomotives of the PKP.

So far, four ET42 retired after accidents, the remaining locomotives in depot Łódź (insert place Zduńska Wola Karsznice ) home and mainly in freight transport on the north- south route between the Upper Silesian Industrial Region and the Baltic ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia in use.