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SNCF Class CC 65500
🇫🇷 France ·built by Compagnie Électro-Mécanique· from 1955· class of 35 French diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CC-65512 Longueville: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class CC 65500 diesel locomotives were built by CAFL and CEM between 1955 and 1959. They were used on heavy express railway freight in the Paris area, being commonly seen on the Grande Ceinture lines around Paris, France. The design of the CC 65500 locomotives was inspired by American locomotives.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 50 years (1955–2005).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1959
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 2005
- status
- retired
- number built
- 35
- kind
- Diesel electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Compagnie Électro-Mécanique, Alstom, Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 19.4 m
- weight
- 116 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2931170, Wikipedia: SNCF Class CC 65500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.