The
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...
Class BB 9200 1500 V DC
electric locomotive
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s were built by
Schneider-Jeumont/
CEM
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Ce ...
between 1958-1964. 92 of them were built, the last being withdrawn in 2014.
History
These
locomotive
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s are products of the Jacquemin product family, offspring of the prototype
BB 9004, and named after the engineer who designed their
bogie
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s.
The locomotives were designed for a maximum speed of and were the first such engines in France. In the late sixties, a small group of locomotives was converted for operation, hauling prestige
TEE
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Etymology
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trains like the ''
Capitole'' - these locomotives were called the
BB 9200 Capitole. These types were later superseded by the
CC 6500 locomotives. Some of these locomotives covered more than before they were withdrawn.
Service
The regular services of the BB 9200 locomotives were inter-regional trains between
Paris Montparnasse
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and
Le Mans
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, between
Paris Austerlitz and
Tours
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and between
Paris Gare de Lyon
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and RE ...
,
Dijon
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* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
and
Lyon
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. Some were in service on freight trains. Phasing out of the class was completed by 2014.
Names
Two members of the class were named.
BB 9200 ''Capitole''
The BB 9200 ''Capitole'' was a variant of the SNCF Class BB 9200 locomotive specially constructed for operating high speed trains running at speeds greater than ). Due to the special colour scheme they were also called the ''BB rouge''. They also sported ''Capitole'' front plates and single-arm
pantographs; the rest of the class had diamond pantographs. From 1967 to 1970 the SNCF started the high speed service with the ''Capitole'' between Paris and Toulouse. This route included some sections with a speed of more than .
* BB 9291 and 9292 : locomotive variants constructed for .
* BB 9278, 9281, 9282 and 9288 : locomotive variants, that were conversions of standard members of the class, and limited to .
Models of the BB 9200 ''rouges'' with their ''Capitol'' plates were produced by Märklin, Lima, Jouef and Roco.
References
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External links
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