SNCF 040 DF
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| Numbering: | 040 DF 1 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Renault |
| Year of construction (s): | 1952 |
| Axis formula : | Bo'Bo ' |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 15,960 mm |
| Height: | 3600 mm |
| Width: | 2700 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 9000 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 2600 mm |
| Service mass: | 53.5 t |
| Top speed: | 110 km / h |
| Continuous output : | 620 kW |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 900 mm |
| Drive: | 2 diesel engines |
The locomotive 040 DF 1 was a unique piece of the French state railway SNCF . It was built as a prototype with a diesel-hydraulic drive in 1952. Manufacturer of the machine was the work of railway vehicles of the company Régie Nationale des Usines Renault (RNUR) in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges . In 1962 it was redrawn as BB 60041.
History and description
The 040 DF 1 was created at the same time as the 040 GA 1 gas turbine locomotive , with which it shared many components, based on the type 5070, of which Renault built 18 copies for the various gauges of the countries of the former French colonial empire . Outwardly, it differed from the 040 GA 1 primarily through a lower roof structure and a different arrangement of the round side windows. Both locomotives were painted dark green with a narrow yellow "belly band".
With the 040 DF 1, two independent drive groups acted on one of the two bogies . Two V-12 engines from Renault with an output of 310 kW each and fluid couplings from Ferodo were used .
On April 29, 1952, the 040 DF 1 was put into operation. In the 1960s it was stationed at the Alençon depot , from where it was used in freight traffic between Argentan and Le Mans .
Whereabouts
The locomotive was shut down on December 15, 1970, and in 1977 it was scrapped in Le Mans. The prototype remained a one-off, and SNCF subsequently opted for diesel-electric propulsion for its diesel locomotives .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Thierry Leleu: La grande encyclopédie des locomotives françaises. 1 - les locomotives et locotracteurs diesel . Les Éditions du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 2013, ISBN 978-2-914603-60-7 , p. 17 .
- ↑ Ferrovissime No. 64 (October 2013), p. 28 f.