After the fall of the Iron Curtain, ÖBB found new routes to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where the network is electrified at 25,000 volts and 50 Hertz. The class 1014 was built as a multi-system locomotive for light express trains on these routes, which took over a lot of the electrical part from the two prototypes of the class 1146 and looked like the 1822. Two locomotives of a lighter variant, which were designed for running through curves at high speeds, were designated as the class 1114 and later rebuilt as the 1014. The 1014 was only used in scheduled service until 2009 and was transferred to Romania in 2016. Zeller Transporttechnik (ZTT) bought 16 of the locomotives in 2018 and brought them back to Austria. After ZTT's bankruptcy, four were sold to Tanzania.
