“Béton“ Concrete liveried 22205 and FRET's 22369 were 2 of 31 SNCF Eloks in Road 2 of the Sotteville Graveyard.
The BB22200's were a class of 205 dual voltage Bo-Bo's built for high-speed running on passenger services.
As time went on and more passenger services moved to multiple units, quite a few were moved over to SNCF FRET for freight services.
They have a top speed of 200 km/h and a power rating of 5,600 kW (7,500 hp).
Other than withdrawals due to accidents, none was “withdrawn” until 12/01/2012.
About 40 BB22220s went into warm storage at the Graveyard from 2010, (VSG based TER lost passenger work and a cull from FRET).
About half of them, (both TER and FRET), were re-activated for cascaded TER work in 2012/ 2013.
Being one of the last classes of Nez Cassé ("broken nose") built, many in 2026 are still working.
They are found on ICs, some TERs, with Infra and still a few allocated to Fret.
Neither of these 2 are survivors.
Loco History: 22205
Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database 🙏
22205 was delivered to SNCF on 30/05/1977.
First noted in storage at the Sotteville Graveyard on 29/08/2010, it was officially withdrawn on 12/01/2012 from VSG’s TER allocation, having travelled 5,941,148 kms.
22205’s last sighting there on August 2011 (still BEFORE it was officially withdrawn).
Presumably, it went to the scrappers soon afterwards, (either later 20111 or early 2012).
Unfortunately, none of the low number 22200s CMR scrap convoys were seen by French railway enthusiasts.
So I am uncertain which scrapyard 22205 went to.
NB: The 3 approved asbestos removal scrapyards at the time are in the album info section.
Any confirmation, of extra details for my database, is greatly received 🙏 🙏
Loco History: 22369
22369 was delivered to SNCF on 27/10/1983.
Like 22205, it was first sighted in the Graveyard on 29/08/2010 and officially withdrawn on 12/01/2012 (4,595,147 kms).
Its last sighting in the Graveyard was 17/09/2015, so was probably scrapped soon after that.
Again like 22205, no convoy or scrap location details are known.
