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SNCF Class BB 67000
🇫🇷 France ·built by Brissonneau et Lotz· from 1963· class of 124 French B′B′ diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCF 67084: Murgatroyd49· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Locomotive BB 67000 in Dieppe: foundin_a_attic· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Class BB 67000 are diesel locomotives in service with the SNCF ("French National Railway Company") from the 1960s.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 44 years (1963–2007).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1963–1968
- in service from
- 1963
- retired
- 2007
- status
- retired
- number built
- 124
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Brissonneau et Lotz, Matériel de Traction Electrique
- designer
- Paul Arzens
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 17.1 m
- weight
- 80 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876856, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 67000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.