Etat 0-8-0 Locomotives in France

Class 040-001 (Locobase 6068)

Data from "+tat 40-001 to 40-143" in Wikipedia at [], last accessed 19 January 2023. See also I N Jevica's [] (visited 29 May 2004) and [] (visited November 2002) by Roland Arzul.

Tank switcher with a small coal bunker and sloping tanks. Wikipedia stated that these were designed to replace the class 30 0-6-0s. Only 20 left the builders before the First World War intervened and the last two were commandeered by the advancing Germans.

Six years later, the Est picked up the thread

Class 4001 (Locobase 7594)

Data from a site that reproduces cigarette card pictures and adds dimension and area data -- [], last accessed 14 June 2006

A long-boilered freight engine with the tall dome positioned over the first driving axle, just behind the even taller stack. Roland Arzul's website of French locomotives -- [], last accessed 22 June 2006 -- notes that this design was the inspiration for the P O's 1114-1140 class. They ran on the Clemont-Ferrand line in mixed-traffic duties.

Although given a class designation by the SNCF, the class never actually operated for the national line. Some were sold to the Algerian Railway, where they ran until 1940.