SNCF Infra "bleu" liveried 66022 sits in the Depot scrapline at Sotteville.
Not every demic loco was in the Graveyard.
Before SNCF needed to find a large yard for the hundreds of retiring locos awaiting asbestos removal, Sotteville's Depot was a common storage location.
66022's History:
NB: Big thanks as usual to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database information🙏
66022 was built by CAFL or Alsthom and delivered to SNCF on 09/07/1960.
It was withdrawn from 01/12/2010 from Avignon Depot having travelled 2,352,591 kms.
It was never sighted in the Graveyard and other than this photo.
The only other known sighting was by “HISTOIRE DES ATELIERS DE QUATRE MARES”, undated in 2012 and inside Quatre-Mares Works (presumably for parts recovery).
Unfortunately, many scrapyard convoys were not seen by French railway enthusiasts, or they were not able to get the loco consist numbers.
So I am uncertain which scrapyard 66022 went to, but probably scrapped in 2012.
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 gratefully received 🙏 🙏
