SNCF's 63935 sits in the line of 36 stored BB63500's in Road 1 of the Sotteville Graveyard, awaiting its fate.
Its fate was luckier than most đ
63935âs History:
Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database informationđ
63935 was built by Brissonneau & Lotz and delivered to SNCF in February 1966.
It was first noted stored at the Graveyard on 29/08/2010.
This was over 4 months before it being officially withdrawn from Rennes Depot on 10/01/2011.
63935 was last logged at Sotteville in August 2011.
Most of the Graveyardâs inmates had a one-way trip to the scrapyard, but 63935 was luckier and preserved.
It went to ACF - Amicale pour la mise en valeur de la ligne Caen-Flers, in Pont-Erambourg, who also preserved classmate 64045.
63935 seem to be stored along with a some non SNCF industrial shunters by an underfunded preservation group in a fenced off.
The ACF do not seem to have a website or be active. Some of the carriages have a mini museum display inside.
The location activity seems to be a VĂ©lorail (bicycle driven rail flat) tourist place, based around the closed station platform.
There are a few static display carriages and 64045 beside of the old platforms, plus a small cafe set up in a shed and part of the cab off BB7300 No. 7314.
If you put âGare de Pont Erambourg - VĂ©lorails des collines normandesâ into Googlemaps, there are recent photos of both BB63500.
