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Ceinture 51 to 65
🇫🇷 France ·built by Chemins de fer du Nord· from 1902· class of 15 French 4-6-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ceinture 230 51-65: Fernand Fleury, † 1918-07-18· Public domain
what is it?
Ceinture 51 to 65 were a class of fifteen 4-6-0T locomotives built in 1902 for the Syndicat d'Exploitation des Chemins de fer de Ceinture de Paris. They passed to the Chemins de fer du Nord in 1934 who renumbered them Nord 3.701 to 3.715. In 1938 they passed to the SNCF who renumbered them 230.TA.1 to 230.TA.6.
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 124 years ago, in 1902.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 58 years (1902–1960).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1902–1903
- in service from
- 1902
- retired
- 1960
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Chemins de fer du Nord
- designer
- Gaston du Bousquet
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Chemins de fer du Nord, Syndicat d'Exploitation des chemins de fer de Ceinture de Paris, Compagnie générale de voies ferrées d'intérêt local
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0T
- length
- 11.5 m
- weight
- 63.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2815030, Wikipedia: Ceinture 51 to 65 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.