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SNCF Class BB 66700
🇫🇷 France ·built by Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt· from 1985· class of 34 French diesel locomotives (rebuilt from BB 66000)
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB 66725 au dépôt de Lens-Méricourt: BB 22385· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 66700 is a class of centre cab diesel locomotives rebuilt from the earlier Class BB 66000. They were regeared and had ballast weights added at Nevers depot to enable them to deal with heavier freight wagons. 34 locomotives were converted between 1985 and 1989.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 57 years (1961–2018).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1985
- in service from
- 1961
- retired
- 2018
- status
- retired
- number built
- 34
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 14.9 m
- weight
- 71 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876850, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 66700 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.