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SNCF BB 9003-9004
🇫🇷 France ·built by Jeumont-Schneider· from 1952· French class of electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCF BB 9004 photo 1: Alf van Beem· CC0
what is it?
The SNCF BB 9003 and BB 9004 are French direct current electric locomotives with two bogies each having two driving axles. Built at the same time as SNCF BB 9001–9002, these four units were used to evaluate locomotives with total adhesion in the course of normal operation. They also served as prototypes that helped define the mechanical and electrical characteristics of future locomotives to be ordered in greater quantities.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 21 years (1952–1973).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1952–1954
- in service from
- 1952
- retired
- 1973
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Jeumont-Schneider
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1.5 kV DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 16.2 m
- weight
- 80 t
- nicknames
- BB Jacquemin
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28950381, Wikipedia: SNCF BB 9003-9004 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.