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SNCF Class BB 66400
🇫🇷 France ·built by Fives Group· from 1968· class of 106 French Diesel-electric locomotives
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB 66459: Victor Brito· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 29.07.90 La Ferté-Gaucher BB66438 (5976062712): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. BB 66400 + VT2 + BB 69400 — gare d'Aulnay-sous-Bois.1: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. BB 66400 + VT2 + BB 69400 — gare d'Aulnay-sous-Bois.2: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Zoom BB 66400 — gare d'Aulnay-sous-Bois: Skililipappa· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 66400 is a class of centre cab mixed traffic diesel locomotives. The class is a development of the BB 66000 with 3 phase electric transmission. The 106 locomotives were built for SNCF by a consortium of CAFL, CEM, Alsthom, Fives-Lille and SACM between 1968 and 1971.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- 1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15 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
- 1968–1971
- number built
- 106
- 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
- 15 m
- weight
- 64 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876845, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 66400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.