Multiservice liveried and 43 years old, SNCF BB25500 “Dancer” 25554 sits in Road 8 awaiting its fate.
This road had 46 Eloks stored in a line down the full length of the yard.
The BB25500s are part of the Alstom builds known as “Danseuse“ (Dancers), due to the to the way they handled on the tracks at speed.
They were dual voltage, (1.5 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz) Bo-Bo’s built in batches (1964 to 1967, 1969, 1971 to 1976).
194 were built with 2 different cab variants, (smaller on 25500 to 25588 and larger from 25589 to 25694).
They were used for freight and local trains (TER and Transilien).
Withdrawals started in 2004 as EMUs replaced many services.
The FRET division locos started going in 2006 with the arrival of the BB27000 Primas.
The last BB25500s finished up in December 2021.
History on 25554:
Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database information🙏
25554 was delivered by Alsthom, (now Alstom), to SNCF on 20/01/1967.
It was withdrawn on 14/12/2009 from Rennes Depot after travelling 4,937,424 kms.
25554 was first logged at the Graveyard on 13/11/2010, though would have arrived earlier as there was no convoy sighting I can find.
Its last sighting in the Graveyard was in 03/09/2011. (Some others present in 2011 were there almost 10 year).
Again, no convoy details on which of the 3 scrapyards it went to.
So probably scrapped in late 2011, or before August 2012 when the next full list came out.
NB: The 3 SNCF approved asbestos removal scrapyards at the time are in the album info section.
If anyone has more details, I would be very grateful, as I am trying to complete a database of all the Graveyard arrivals, departures and scrapyard locations🙏 🙏
