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TheBB 22200 is a class ofelectric locomotives in service with the French railwaysSNCF, built byAlstom between 1976 and 1986. They are adual voltage version (1500 V DC and25 kV 50 Hz AC) of theBB 7200 andBB 15000Nez Cassé classes.[a]
After the first test held in 1976, the BB 22200 were introduced on theMarseille–Nice–Ventimiglia line in southern France–northernItaly. The following year they started to haul longer distance trains such as theTrain Bleu (1000 km from Ventimiglia toParis) and the car-transport train between Marseille and Paris.
The BB 22200 are capable of a maximum speed of 160 kilometres per hour (99 mph). Eight locomotives, having a maximum power of 5,600 kilowatts (7,500 hp), were equipped for services up to 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph) and can work onLGV lines.
From 1994 nine of the class were used for hauling freight trains through theChannel Tunnel as theClass 92 locomotives were not yet delivered.[1][2] These were numbered 22379/380/399-405,[3] and were used until 1995.[citation needed] For use on British railways these locomotives were allocated the UKTOPSClass 22.[4]
The surviving members of the class are used on services betweenBercy–Nevers andMarseille–Bordeaux,[5] as well as onTER services between Lyon, Chambéry and Modane.[citation needed]
60 members of the class received names, chiefly of French communes, towns and cities.[6]
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