FNM Class E.610

Machine-translated from the Italian article

The E.610 locomotives are a group of 3000-volt direct current electric locomotives of the FNM Group. The E.610s were built in a number of 4 units in 1949, in collaboration between OM, Breda and CGE, on express order of the Ferrovie Nord Milano, at that time engaged in a plan to revive its railway network and renew it, also because of the devastation suffered during the years of the Second World War. Characterised by a profile similar to that of the FS E.424 locomotives, but with more compact dimensions, the E.610s enabled the FNM fleet to be enriched, in view of a planned extension of the electrification of the network, also by virtue of the good results achieved with the E.600 group, by then proven but insufficient in number to carry out further services.