The fifth and
sixth volume of the work of "Locomotives Diesel" talk about to the
French locomotives in the Iberian narrow-gauge railroads. It is a
question of a pause in the study that
 we have
realized in the previous four volumes that we have dedicated to the
evolution of the locomotives diesel in Renfe.
Two are the aspects that can be call us the attention in the topic
that occupies us: The first one, the bet for renewing the traction
in the networks of narrow rail and the second one, the attempt of
constructing part of the locomotives in some of the principal
national factories of railway material. In these aspects, the
Department of Public Works (MOP) that
directed the operation, the dieselización
was advanced some years in Renfe. But
the results neither were spectacular nor offered the possibility of
a wide development in the construction of other series, inclusive
for Renfe, so this one prefered to
the North American builders, as we have detailed in the previous
volumes of the work. In addition, the economic situation of the
fifties and sixties of last century represented the closing of a
great number of lines of narrow rail and the reorganization of the
state network of Exploitation for the State
(EFE), later FEVE.
Three were the series of French
locomotives in the lines of narrow rail, but only one of these, it
designed by the company Alsthom, it
turned out to be the most efficient. Other two select types, the
model of the house Batignolles and
that of the house Creusot they had a
few more discreet enough results, and at the end of the eighties it
can be said that already they were finding most of his isolated or
dressed workforce. On the other hand, the locomotives
Alsthom, more numerous, were widely
used in many of the Spanish lines of metric route.
The present work has
represented a long effort due to the dispersion of files, and
overcoat, to the different lines and transfers to which these
locomotives were submitted. Owed, also, to the extension of the text
it has been necessary to divide it in two parts, first this one on
the Batignolles and the
Creusot, and later other one
dedicated only to the locomotives Alsthom
of the series MOP/Feve 1000 and the
later generation, the series Feve
1.600 and 1.650. |
