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SNCF Class BB 25150
🇫🇷 France ·built by Matériel de Traction Electrique· from 1967· class of 45 French dual-voltage electric locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BB 25193 quittant Chambéry: Florian Pépellin· Public domain
- 2. BB 25193 at St Gervais-les-Bains: Murgatroyd49· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Mulhouse 1999, SNCF Class BB 25150 (SIK 03-026344): ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Bärtschi, Hans-Peter / SIK_03-026344 / CC BY-SA 4.0· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Albertville station 1998 2: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. TER pour Bourg-Saint-Maurice quittant Moûtiers (août 2007): Florian Pépellin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. BB 25179 - 3 (5368237644): 8Uhr· CC BY 2.0
- 7. BB 25182 Fret au faisceau d'Annecy (septembre 2007): Florian Pépellin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Locomotive BB 25179 Fret - Rotonde de Chambéry (juillet 2006): Florian Pépellin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. SNCF BB25182 Satigny 060110: NAC· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. TER en gare de St-Jean de Maurienne: Florian Pépellin· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The BB 25150 is a class of electric locomotives in service with the French railways SNCF, built by Materiel de Traction Electrique (MTE) between 1967 and 1976. They are dual voltage locomotives working off both 1500 V DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC. Designed by André Jacquemin, the class is a development of the earlier BB 25100.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 16.2 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
- 1967–1977
- number built
- 45
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Matériel de Traction Electrique
- designer
- André Jacquemin
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 16.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1254330, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 25150 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.