#1018
SNCF Class BB 1800
🇫🇷 France ·built by Thomson-Houston Electric Company· from 1900· class of 10 French electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ouest tracteur 5001-5010, 1900: Fernand Fleury, † 1918-07-18· Public domain
what is it?
The BB 1800 were motor luggage vans of SNCF. These were the so-called "first-series" Z 5000 locomotives ordered by the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest. They were put into service, with running numbers Z 5001 to Z 5010, on 12 April 1900, on the line from Paris-Invalides to Issy-Plaine, which was extended to Meudon on 1 July 1901 then to Versailles RG on 31 May 1902.
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 126 years ago, in 1900.
- 353 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1900
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Thomson-Houston Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- operators
- Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, Chemins de fer de l'État, Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 353 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Third rail
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- weight
- 51 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876802, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 1800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.