History
Between the years 1993-1997, a mere 21 units were built by Pafawag. The newly-built ED72s were assigned to large regional transit operations in the towns of Poznań, Szczecin, Kraków, and Bydgoszcz.
The series was created as an "upmarket" replacement for the, more spartan, EN57 and EN71 electric multiple units. Unfortunately, the express passenger service, InterRegio, for which the series was designed didn't find the ED72 to be quite as comfortable as they had hoped.
Currently, all 21 units are still in use, servicing mostly InterRegio and some local Regio and RegioPlus trains.
Read more about this topic: PKP Class ED72
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