Nez cassés

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CC 40105 of the CC 40100 series in front of the EuroCity Étoile du Nord in Paris Gare du Nord , 1995

As Nez cassés (broken nose) is a design of locomotives referred that the French designer Paul Arzens was designed. The term is also used colloquially as an umbrella term for machines with this appearance. It was mainly used in electric locomotives , but also in the family of the CC 72000 series of diesel locomotives from the GEC Alsthom company .

CP series 2600
CC 6557 of the SNCF in Paris Gare de Lyon
1746 of the NS and 1604 of the DB with deep-set third headlights

The sight of a sprinter on the starting block is said to have inspired Arzens when designing the express train locomotive series CC 40100 , which was the first to have this look. It was important that the inclination of the windshields could reduce obstructions to the view from backlight and the effects of the weather. Machines with the Nez-cassés design not only run on the French state railway SNCF , such locomotives have also been sold to the Netherlands , Belgium , Portugal , Yugoslavia , Morocco and South Korea . Nez cassés of the 1600 series also came to Deutsche Bahn via the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) .

The Nez cassés include the electric locomotive series

and the diesel locomotive series

The original design can only be found in the multi-system locomotives CC 40100 of the SNCF and their sister series 18 of the NMBS / SNCB. For the following series, it was revised in the front area, the third headlight moved - if necessary - partially under the windshield of the electric locomotives. In favor of a more spacious driver's cab , these were made less steep on later machines.

  • Diesel locomotives

  • Diesel locomotive CC 72084 of the SNCF in original livery in Lison

  • CC 272 163 (repowered CC 72063) in the Livrée "En voyage" in Chalindrey , the introduced 2 has their belonging to Intercités out

  • DF 112 of the ONCF in Tangier

The Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR also tested windows that were inclined towards the front in order to reduce the glare. For this purpose, the diesel locomotives 059, 131 and 203 of the V 180 series received glass fiber fronts with a modified design.

literature

  • Thomas Estler: Locomotives of the French state railway SNCF . 1st edition. Transpress, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-613-71480-9 .

Web links

Commons : Nez Cassés  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Estler: Locomotives of the French state railway SNCF , p. 64.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Estler: Locomotives of the French state railway SNCF , p. 40.
  3. ↑ a b c d Thomas Estler: Locomotives of the French state railway SNCF , p. 42.
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Estler: Locomotives of the French state railway SNCF , p. 82 f.
  5. ↑ Konrad Kaschinski: Series V 180 . In: Cult diesel locomotives of the DR . VGB Verlagsgruppe Bahn, Fürstenfeldbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-8375-1966-2 , p. 18th ff .