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SNCF Class BB 16000
🇫🇷 France ·built by Le Matériel de Traction Électrique· from 1958· French electric locomotive class "BB Jacquemin" (Bo'Bo' 25 kV 50 Hz)
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCF BB 16037: No machine-readable author provided. Babskwal assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 2. 10.04.87 Valenciennes BB16024 (5928168550): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. 17.10.94 Paris-Nord BB 16029 (32713990991): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. BB 16000 Caen 1996: Sovxx· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. BB 16028 à Paris-Nord - 10 septembre 2008: BB 22385· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. BB 16055 à Amiens - 25 avril 2009: BB 22385· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. BB 16012 - 2012-01-15 - Cambrai 2: Peter Rabijns· CC BY 2.0
- 8. SNCF 116012 En Voyage pic4: AlfvanBeem· CC0
- 9. LivréeCorail: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Paris-Nord SNCB loc 1608: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The SNCF BB 16000 are a class of 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric locomotives produced by MTE. They are the AC version of the BB 9200.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 4.1 MW is about 49 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1958–1963
- number built
- 62
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Le Matériel de Traction Électrique
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 4.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16.7 m
- weight
- 88 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q837266, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 16000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.