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Réseau Breton 4-6-0 tank locomotives
🇫🇷 France ·built by Société Franco-Belge· from 1904· class of 12 French metre-gauge 4-6-0T locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. RB - Loco 230 T n° E 325: Unknown author Unknown author· CC0
- 2. CFBS 230T Fives Lille: Philippe et Laurent VDM· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Réseau Breton 4-6-0 tank locomotives were a class of metre gauge locomotives. The twelve class members were built in two batches by Franco-Belge and Fives-Lille for the Réseau Breton (RB) in France. Introduced in 1904, they were to be found all over the Réseau Breton system, lasting in traffic until the closure of the metre gauge lines in 1967.
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 122 years ago, in 1904.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.5 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 63 years (1904–1967).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1904–1909
- in service from
- 1904
- retired
- 1967
- status
- retired
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Société Franco-Belge, Fives Group
- operators
- Réseau Breton
- top speed
- 55 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 9.5 m
- weight
- 33.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2041666, Wikipedia: Réseau Breton 4-6-0 tank locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.