The Class BB 67300 is a group of

diesel locomotive A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover (locomotive), power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is con ...

s used by

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th ...

. They were built by

Brissonneau and Lotz Brissonneau et Lotz was a French locomotive engineering company that specialized in the production of railway locomotives and wagons. The company was also a supplier of rolling stock to the Paris Metro, constructing in 1951 the first metro trai ...

between 1967 and 1969. A development of the BB 67000 class of diesel engines fitted with electric train heating and three-phase transmission. Designed as a mixed traffic loco, twenty were fitted for push-pull operation.

Names

One member of the class was named: BB 67348 '' La Bernerie-en-Retz''.

References

67300 67300 B-B locomotives BB 67300 Railway locomotives introduced in 1967 Standard-gauge locomotives of France {{France-rail-transport-stub

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