BB-20011 prototype.
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Ordered as BB-22379, yet delivered in 1984 with synchronous motors, as a prototype for Class 26000.
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BB-22380 also experienced the same fate, as BB-20012.
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In the late-80s, both were stabled, pending re-instatement to BB-22379 and 380, which only came in 1995/1996. 
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In the meantime, both had indeed been rebuilt to TTU, for freighters through Channel Tunnel (Fréthun-Dollands Moor), as deliveries for Class 92/92000 ran behind schedule.
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14th April 1989.
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Brétigny-sur-Orge.
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Photo by Bernard Vieu (Acknowledgements)
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# bernard.vieu@wanadoo.fr
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)