This class of small shunters has 150 members. They were delivered by

Arbel Fauvet Rail Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR) is a railway rolling stock manufacturer based in Douai, France. In 2010 the company was acquired by Titagarh Wagons and renamed AFR Titagarh. History Arbel The company's history dates to 1856 when Lucien Arbel in assoc ...

in the early 1990s and seem to have been spread across

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. They have the

0-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were ...

("B") wheel arrangement, 200 kW

diesel engine The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...

s and hydraulic transmission.

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*Fleet list (SNCF): Diesel locomotives of France B locomotives Y08400 Arbel Fauvet Rail locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1990 Standard gauge locomotives of France Diesel-hydraulic locomotives {{France-rail-transport-stub Shunting locomotives