France: Toulouse area, SNCF BB7200 & BB8500 electric locos on TER passenger trains

Описание: France: A selection of clips showing SNCF Class BB7200 and BB8500 electric locomotives working TER passenger trains in the Toulouse area of southern France.

All clips were recorded on the 12th & 13th May 2015.

Clip 1 - 7393 departs from Grisolles on the 1725 Toulouse - Brive La Gaillarde. 12th May 2015.
Clip 2 - (0:39) 8615 departs from Toulouse on the 1821 to Agen. 12th May 2015.
Clip 3 - (1:41) 7400 (in Fret livery) departs from Saint Agne on the 1941 Toulouse - Pau. 12th May 2015.
Clip 4 - (2:21) 7289 departs from Portet Saint Simon on the 2040 Toulouse - Lourdes. 12th May 2015.
Clip 5 - (3:24) 8627 leaving Carcassonne on the 0814 Toulouse - Narbonne (recorded on board the train). 13th May 2015.
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Toulouse is the capital city of the southwestern French department of Haute-Garonne, as well as of the Midi-Pyrénées region. It lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean, and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. With 1,250,251 inhabitants at the January 2011 census, the Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in France, after Paris (12.3 million), Lyon (2.2 million), and Marseille (1.7 million).

Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the Galileo positioning system, the SPOT satellite system, the Airbus Group (former EADS), ATR and the Aerospace Valley.

The city also hosts the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the largest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, and Astrium Satellites, Airbus Group's satellite system subsidiary, also have a significant presence in Toulouse. Its world renowned university is one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229) and, with more than 103,000 students, is the fourth-largest university campus of France after Paris, Lyon and Lille.

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The SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français; "French National Railway Corporation") is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network. Its functions include operation of rail services for passengers and freight, and maintenance and signalling of rail infrastructure owned by Réseau Ferré de France (RFF).

SNCF employs more than 180,000 people in 120 countries across the globe. The rail network consists of about 32,000 km (20,000 mi) of route, of which 1,800 km (1,100 mi) are high-speed lines and 14,500 km (9,000 mi) electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily. The chairman of SNCF is Guillaume Pépy. The company's headquarters is in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, in the Rue du Commandant Mouchotte.
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The SNCF Class BB 7200 is a 1.5 kV DC electric locomotive operated by the SNCF in France. They BB 7200 are part of the "Nez Cassé" family of locomotives, this being the DC version. SNCF Class BB 15000 is the AC version while the Class BB 22200 is a dual-voltage version. They are numbered to show that the DC and AC class make the dual-voltage locomotives (7200 + 15000 = 22200). Another relative is the NS Class 1600 operated in Netherlands, a DC locomotive based on the BB 7200.
7209, 7210, 7308 and 7348 have all been destroyed in accidents. The class are numbered 7201 - 7440. Some have cast plates.

In 2012 and 2013, the locomotives numbered 7311, 7312, 7314, 7325 à 7327, 7330 à 7332, 7335, 7337, 7339, 7341 et 7342 are modified and become BB 7600 locomotives, to be operated on Transilien Paris – Montparnasse lines.
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The SNCF Class BB 8500 class are part of a series of electric locomotives built by Alsthom for SNCF. They are the direct current version of the 25 kV alternating current SNCF BB 17000 and dual system SNCF BB 25500.

The locomotives are fitted with monomotor bogies with two different gear ratios. This allows them to increase their tractive effort in exchange for a reduction in their top speed. This makes them suitable for both freight and passenger trains. They acquired the nickname Danseuses (dancers) due to their tendency to sway from side to side at speed, which led to them being blacked at a number of depots.

They were built in three distinct batches, leading to detail differences. They remain in use as mixed traffic locomotives, mostly with TER and but with some remaining for special duties. Thirty locomotives, dedicated to empty stock moves, have been reclassified as BB 88500. Likewise in 2001, 20 of the class were dedicated for workings on the Ligne de la Maurienne. They were classified BB 8700 for this period.
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