#3508
SNCF Class BB 63400
🇫🇷 France ·built by Brissonneau et Lotz· from 1959· class of centre cab diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB63401 au dépot de Longueau: BB 22385· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 63400 was a class of centre cab diesel locomotives built for SNCF between 1959 and 1960 by Brissonneau et Lotz. The class consisted of 23 locomotives numbered 63401– 63423. Similar to the more powerful Class BB 63500, the construction was financed under the Eurofima arrangements.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 605 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959–1960
- retired
- 2015
- status
- retired
- number built
- 23
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Brissonneau et Lotz
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 605 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo’Bo’
- length
- 14.7 m
- weight
- 68 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1254339, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 63400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.