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SNCF 2D2 5500
🇫🇷 France ·built by Compagnie Électro-Mécanique· from 1926· class of 50 French electric locomotives
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. E-502 PO: Scanné par Didier Duforest· Public domain
- 2. 2D2-5525 Versailles-a: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. CdT - 2D2 écorchée: A1AA1A· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. SNCF 2D2 5546: Tangopaso· Public domain
- 5. 2D2 5500 à Montréjeau en 1970: Mouliric· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 22-12-26, inauguration de la ligne électrique Paris-Vierzon, Orléans à Vierzon - btv1b53170144g: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)· Public domain
- 7. 22-12-26, inauguration de la ligne électrique Paris-Vierzon, Orléans-Vierzon - btv1b53170183p: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)· Public domain
- 8. 22-12-26, la ligne électrique Paris-Vierzon - btv1b53170180b: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)· Public domain
- 9. 22-12-26, la ligne électrique Paris-Vierzon - btv1b53172001s: Agence Rol· Public domain
- 10. 2d2 e510: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The 2D2 5500 were electric locomotives operated by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans, then SNCF in France, in operation from 1933 to 1980.
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 100 years ago, in 1926.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 47 years (1933–1980).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1926–1943
- in service from
- 1933
- retired
- 1980
- status
- retired
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Compagnie Électro-Mécanique, Fives Group
- operators
- Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans, Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- 2′Do2′
- length
- 17.8 m
- weight
- 130 t
- nicknames
- 'Nez de cochon' (Pig-nose),, 'Femme enceinte' (Pregnant lady),, 'Waterman' (after Waterman ink jar)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2815775, Wikipedia: SNCF 2D2 5500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.