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50Hz-AC (dual-voltage) prototype BB-20003 of SNCF. Actually a former Class 16500 (BB-16540), rebuilt with 1.5 + 25kV in 1959. It then ran around Annecy, along with other, older prototypes and Class 25000. Re-instated to BB-16540 in 1969. Aix-les-Bains. July 1963. Photo by Michel Lavertu (Acknowledgements) Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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BB-20011 prototype. Ordered as BB-22379, yet delivered in 1984 with synchronous motors, as a prototype for Class 26000. BB-22380 also experienced the same fate, as BB-20012. In the late-80s, both were stabled, pending re-instatement to BB-22379 and 380, which only came in 1995/1996. 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. 14th April 1989. Brétigny-sur-Orge. Photo by Bernard Vieu (Acknowledgements) Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)

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SNCF CC 6052, later renumbered as CC 20002. Collection Jean-Pierre Vergez-Larrouy (jean-pierre.vergez@tele2.fr)

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SNCF CC 20001 La Grand'Mère ! La 1ère motrice 50Hz de série et bicourant de surcroit ! (Ph. MATYUS)

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SNCF BBB 20003 Prototype monophasé 1950 (Hte-Savoie). Dépot d'Annemasse dans les années '60. (Ph. Matyus)

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CC 20001 with train 8766. La Roche sur Foron, February 17, 1980. Photo Jean-Paul Lescat (lescatj-p@mail.azur.fr)