SNCF Class BB 10003 locomotive was used as a test machine for operations of the TGV-TMST on 750 V and 3000 V. In 1998 the locomotive was converted back to a non-experimental class - as SNCF BB 15007. (SNCF Class BB 15000) The results were not as good as synchronous motor technology; it was not until the introduction of GTO transistor technology that series production of an asynchronous induction motored locomotive began in France, as the "Eurostar" TGV (1992), and later the BB 36000 "Astride" (1996). SNCF Class BB 10003 The locomotive SNCF BB 10003 was an experimental prototype locomotive converted from a SNCF
China Railway No.2 Group the State Council. In January 2017, China Railway Group Limited backdoor listing some assets, as well as privatized China Railway Erju's subsidiary China Railway Erju Engineering Co., Ltd. (). China Railway Erju was renamed to China Railway Hi-tech Industry (CRHIC) after the transactions. The predecessor of the company was found in 1998 (China Railway No.2 Group Co., Ltd., ), which could be traced back to 1978, as the Second Bureau of Engineering of the Ministry of Railways. () The original second bureau could traced back the history to 1950, but in 1978 the bureau was split into the [new] second