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SNCF 150.P
🇫🇷 France ·built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques· from 1940· class of French four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCF Class 150 P: Tangopaso· Public domain
- 2. 150 P 13 Noyelles-a: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 150 P 13 Noyelles: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
SNCF 150.P were a class of 2-10-0 “Decapod” steam locomotives built as standard locomotives of the newly created SNCF between April 1940 and April 1950
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 86 years ago, in 1940.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1940–1968).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1940–1950
- in service from
- 1940
- retired
- 1968
- status
- retired
- number built
- 115
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Blanc-Misseron
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-0
- length
- 12.5 m
- weight
- 106 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2807975, Wikipedia: SNCF 150.P (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.