Intercity „porusza Kibiców” for Euro 2012
PKP Intercity „moves its football fans” for Euro 2012
16 locomotives painted in the national colours of football teams and 4 in stadium images will run during the 2012 European Football Championship. This is a surprise for football fans of the teams playing in the UEFA Euro 2012 ™ that was prepared by the Polish carrier – PKP Intercity – specially for the purpose of the upcoming event. The locomotive with Polish national colours was the first to set off with a “new look”.
Two locomotive types - 10 „Husarz” EU-44s and 10 EP-09s - were covered with special foil with the national colours of the countries taking part in Euro 2012. 16 are in the national colours of the countries participating in the tournament, and the carrier put the graphic images of the Polish stadiums in Gdansk, Poznan, Wroclaw and Warsaw on the remaining 4. Each locomotive carries the slogan of the project – „The rail moves its football fans” – translated into the language of the given country.
Special Euro 2012 locomotives will run for 6 months to follow – until November 2012. During this period, each of them will cover almost 120 thousand kilometres, and all of them together – 2,5 million kilometres. According to the carrier’s estimates, approximately 1,5m people will see these locomotives. Every thirtieth person will be Polish.
„Sports meetings, such as football tournaments, should be held in an atmosphere of friendliness and openness. Our project is a token of sympathy and hospitality towards the teams and football fans, who will come to Poland from all around Europe. This is how we want to show that football matches are not only about competition, but also cheering and having fun together” – says Janusz Malinowski, President of PKP Intercity.
PKP Intercity was inspired by the activities of Austrian and German railways, which repainted the some of their locomotives for Euro 2008 and the 2006 World Cup. Intercity started working on this project in January this year, in February the painting projects were created, and the first locomotive (in Polish national colours) to hit the tracks on 30th March 2012 was a 17:55 Warsaw – Berlin train. The locomotives will run to all major Polish cities, especially Host Cities and Cracow, where several national teams are to be accommodated. Abroad, the public will be able to come across these locomotives in Berlin.
„This is a unique and exceptional undertaking. Many people – from the company, as well as from outside – have been engaged in working on this project” – says Janusz Malinowski. He adds – „We’ve changed the colours of the highest number of locomotives. Germany changed the colours of 2 engines, Austria – 18, and we repainted 20. We are the first ones to present the arenas for the championship – stadiums in Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk. The motto for the project – „The rail moves its football fans” was put on 16 locomotives in the languages of the given countries.”
„The technical part was the biggest challenge. Nobody had experience in covering locomotives with coloured foil using this technology. During regular exploitation, the surface of the EP-09 locomotive heats up to a temperature around 60 Celsius. The material used for changing the locomotives’ appearance had to be extremely resistant to sun fading, rain, temperature and dirt.” – underlines the President of PKP Intercity.
Intercity has planned numerous events promoting the undertaking and the Championship itself. The culmination will be a ceremonial run of the locomotives through the Warsaw cross-city line planned for 19th May this year. Locomotives in the national colours of Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Greece will be presented on that day.
Ceremonial runs of the rest of the locomotives will take place on the same route in the following weeks of May and at the beginning of June:
26th of May: the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal
27th of May: Spain, Italy, Ireland, Croatia
3th of June: Ukraine, Sweden, France, England
The carrier also announces further activity on its website intercity.pl, where once a week it will present films with a run of trains with the special locomotives. The films will be chosen from the ones uploaded to YouTube by railway fans. Intercity will also survey its website visitors which of the foiled locomotives should stay on Polish tracks for longer. The locomotive which passengers like best will keep its special colours and lead trains until June 2013.
On all locomotives in colours other than Poland’s white and red, the slogan of the project was put in two languages – Polish and the language of the country the colours of which the train was painted into. Many people have helped in translating the slogan “The rail moves its football fans” – embassy employees, native speakers, sworn translators. The Greek, Spanish and Ukrainian versions proved to be most difficult, in means of conveying the slogan’s ambiguity and sense.
The graphic projects presented on the locomotives were created by a company designing jewellery and porcelain products for Svarovski.
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The EURO 2012™ European Football Championship will take place in Poland and Ukraine from 8th June to 1st July 2012. 16 national teams will take part in the tournament. Matches will be held in four Polish cities: Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Wroclaw, and four Ukrainian ones: Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk and Lviv. During the Euro 2012 in Poland, PKP Intercity will launch almost 950 national trains to run to and from Host Cities; almost 50 of them will be so-called additional trains. All in all, according to the carrier’s estimates, they will service almost 475 000 passengers. During the Championship, almost 1700 carriages and 261 locomotives will run in the colours of PKP Intercity.
You will find information on train schedules and tickets on the website intercity.pl or in information points at train stations. If you don’t have Internet access, you can use the information line – 19 757 (from landline phones) or (42 or 22) 19 436 (from all kinds of phones).
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