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SNCF Class BB 66000
🇫🇷 France ·built by Fives Group· from 1960· class of French diesel-electric locomotives
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8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB 66042 au dépot de Longueau: BB 22385· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 30.08.89 Capdenac BB66000s (6287388052): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. BB 66000 à Beauchery: Elpitch· Public domain
- 4. BB 66000.1 — gare du Mée: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. BB66000 in Roquebrune Cap-Martin: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 6. Chantier gare de Dijon-Ville, Meccoli 2018 (2) BB 66000: Kevin.B· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Locomotive type BB 66000 n° 66266 en gare d'Auray: fr:Utilisateur:Crouchineki· CC BY-SA 1.0
- 8. Viaduc St Leger BB 66000 - 1: KARELEM· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 66000 is a class of 318 centre cab diesel locomotives built for SNCF by a consortium of CAFL, CEM, Alsthom, Fives-Lille and SACM between 1960 and 1968.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1968
- in service from
- 1960
- number built
- 318
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Fives Group, Alstom, Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt, Compagnie Électro-Mécanique
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 14.9 m
- weight
- 67 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876843, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 66000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.