POLAND: Siemens Mobility will build a locomotive service centre in Gądki near Poznań, its first in the country. The 4,300 square metre depot is due to open in 2027 and will service up to seven locomotives at a time for fleets across Central and Eastern Europe.
Siemens announced the investment on 14 September. The site will have around 5 km of electrified track, an underfloor wheel lathe, a dropping table and a dedicated test area. It will cover work from scheduled inspections and safety-system checks to major overhauls, modifications, accident repairs and mobile service.
The centre will handle heavy maintenance as well as routine work. Siemens has maintained locomotives in Poland for more than 15 years, and says the new site will consolidate that work in one place and widen the range of jobs that can be done locally.
Existing operation in Poland
Siemens Mobility runs its Polish maintenance business today with a team of more than 60 specialists. They handle several hundred locomotives a year, among them Vectron, Taurus and Class 189 (ES64F4) units.
The company has held Entity in Charge of Maintenance (ECM) certification in Poland since 2021. Under EU rules, the ECM is the organisation formally responsible for keeping a vehicle in a safe running condition.
The new centre will be integrated into Siemens’ European locomotive service network. Siemens says the aim is to build local expertise, including maintenance capabilities for multi-system locomotives, and to add service capacity for fleets running across the region.
Cost, timetable and partners
Siemens has put the investment at more than PLN 100m (roughly EUR 23m) in information supplied to the Polish news agency PAP. The company’s Polish operation says construction will start at the end of 2026 and that the site will employ up to 50 people in its first phase. None of those figures appeared in the 14 September announcement.
Development of the centre is supported by local and regional partners, including the Marshal’s Office of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship, the municipality of Kórnik and the Zakłady Kórnickie Foundation. The site will be built to operate carbon neutrally. Maintenance will be managed on Railigent X, the company’s digital platform for fleet and maintenance data.
Elmar Zeiler, CEO Customer Services at Siemens Mobility, described Poland as a strategically important European rail market for the company’s service network.