The Company´s History
1903
Electrification of the first standard-gauge railway line within the territory of the present-day Czech Republic – from Tábor to Bechyně, as designed by František Křižík
1928
Electrification of railway stations in Prague, using overhead contact line and railway power supply system by AEG, Brown-Boveri, ČKD, Škoda, and Křižík
1949
Starting electrification of the main railway lines in Czechoslovakia using the 3 kV DC traction system; development of the company’s own overhead contact line equipment starts
1954
Formation of the state enterprise Elektrizace železnic Praha – as a monopoly supplier of overhead contact lines to the Czechoslovak Railways (ČSD) for the next nearly 40 years; during the period, the company participated in electrification project in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and Yugoslavia
1992
Breakthrough year – the state enterprise was privatized and transformed into a joint-stock company owned by Elektrizace dopravy, spol. s r.o. and the State Property Fund
2004
Elektrizace dopravy, spol. s r.o. becomes the sole owner of the company
2009
Shares in Elektrizace dopravy, spol. s r.o. sold to EP Industries, a.s.; EP Industries a.s. acquired 100% share, thus becoming the majority shareholder/owner of Elektrizace železnic Praha a.s.
2019
Leader in the assembly and installation of fixed traction equipment for railways (conventional and high-speed)