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SNCF Class BB 12000
🇫🇷 France ·built by Schneider-Westinghouse· from 1954· class of 148 French electric locomotives
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8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive BB-12000, à l'entrée de Nouvion-sur-Meuse.: Tadeo59370· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. SNCF BB-12010: Murgatroyd49· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. BB 12087 - 2011-05-07 - Nouvion-sur-Meuse - 3: Peter Rabijns· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Locomotive BB12004 ascq 2008 lb: Luc Beaumadier· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. France Rail 041 Charleville: Brooksbank· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. BB 12069 - 1999-07-25 - Lens: Peter Rabijns· CC BY 2.0
- 7. Le Creusot in 2000, SNCF BB 12069 (SIK 03-027580): ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Bärtschi, Hans-Peter / SIK_03-027580 / CC BY-SA 4.0· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Le Creusot Ville lokomotywa BB-12069 1: Andrzej Otrębski· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 12000 were electric locomotives operated by SNCF, the French railway operator. The first examples arrived on the railway in 1953, operating on the 25 kV 50 Hz line to the coal mines of the Houillères de Lorraine in the north-east of France.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- 15.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954–1961
- retired
- 2000
- status
- retired
- number built
- 148
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Schneider-Westinghouse
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 15.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088466, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 12000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.