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Locotracteurs Gaston Moyse

French manufacturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3257772 ↗
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Locotracteurs Gaston Moyse was a French manufacturer of diesel shunting locomotives. Founded in 1922 by Gaston Moyse, the company closed in the late 1970s.

The company produced numerous shunting locomotives, including the Y 7400 and Y 8000 for the French state railways (SNCF), and classes CP 1020 and CP 1050 for the Portuguese state railways (Comboios de Portugal). and shunters for industrial use in steel works and on other industrial sites.

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"Creil, Usine de petite métallurgie clouterie Denille, actuellement ACOR. Locomotive : locotracteur". inventaire.picardie.fr (in French). L'Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2011-07-14.

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“Locotracteurs Gaston Moyse” enters the record as french manufacturer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Locotracteurs, Gaston and Moyse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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