The TGV (, meaning high-speed train ) is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator.

The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.

There is a total of of railway in France, mostly operated by SNCF, the French national railway company.

The line is operated by the SNCF.

Its capital is divided up between SNCF ( 62 %), NMBS / SNCB ( 28 %)

The SNCF ( Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français ; " French National Railway Corporation ") is France's national state-owned railway company.

The chairman of SNCF is Guillaume Pépy.

* France: Lead Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Maintainer – The scope of SNCF ’ s maintenance duties is staggering: it maintains of track, 26, 500 main sets of points and crossings, 2, 300 signal boxes, 80, 000 track circuits, over 1 million relays, etc.

Today, SNCF is 100 % owned by the French government.

This change of language is linked to the potentially lucrative market for high-speed rail contracts across the United States of America, since SNCF has been criticized in the US for failing to apologize for its involvement.

SNCF is a recognized leader in eco-mobility with a commitment to become the world ’ s first operator to offer carbon neutral travel at no extra cost to travellers.

* SNCF Infra is the infrastructure division of SNCF, and carries out track and other infrastructure maintenance, design and construction.

* SNCF Proximités is responsible for urban, commuter and regional passenger transport.

* SNCF Geodis is the rail freight and general freight logistics section of SNCF, including Fret SNCF and other European rail freight companies ( since 2010 collected under the brand Captrain ), as well as rail-freight stock management companies including France Wagons and Ermewa.

Chamonix is served by the metre-gauge St Gervais-Vallorcine Line, operated by SNCF.

A list of railway stations codeshared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak, SNCF French Rail, and Deutsche Bahn is available.

The RER is operated partly by RATP, the transport authority that operates Paris Métro, and partly by SNCF, the national rail operator.

The town's train station is served by SNCF and TGV trains, including some that provide overnight ' sleeper ' services.

Because it is serviced with SNCF trains, the C line of the Métro de Toulouse is sometimes called RER toulousain.

SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration ’ s main high-speed rail line.

Eurostar trains began operating in 1994, when EPS, SNCB and SNCF were each responsible for the running of Eurostar services on their own territory.

" Furthermore, the RATP and the SNCF, respectively responsible for Île de France and national public transit, had to work out a revenue-sharing scheme, but this proved to be relatively easy.

French national railway museum ), the organisation responsible for the conservation of major historical SNCF railway equipment.

In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

Nearly 1, 700 SNCF railway workers were killed or deported for resisting Nazi orders.

SNCF billed Nazi-occupied France for third-class tickets, although passengers were transported in cattle cars.

After the liberation of France, SNCF continued to seek payment for transporting Holocaust victims to Germany.

SNCF publicly expressed regret for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II for the first time in November 2010 in order to enhance its bid on Florida railway contracts.

These were later joined by the French-built SEDAM N500 Naviplane with a capacity of 385 passengers and 45 cars ; only one entered service and was used intermittently for a few years on the cross-channel service until returned to SNCF in 1983.

The system of line letters was introduced to the public on this occasion, though it had been used internally at RATP and SNCF for some time.

On the RER, interconnection required the development of specific trains ( MI 79 series for Materiel d ' Interconnexion 1979, and MI 2N series for Materiel d ' Interconnexion à 2 niveaux ( double-deck interconnection stock )) capable of operating under both 1. 5 kV direct current on the RATP network and 25 kV / 50 Hz alternating current on the SNCF network.

Plans for this extension include an eight kilometer bored tunnel from the current western terminus at Haussmann-St Lazare, with new stations at Porte Maillot, La Défense, and Nanterre-La Folie, and a connection to the SNCF Normandy line in or near Nanterre, the transfer of the current Line A Poissy service to Line E, and its further extension down the Seine valley to Mantes.

The town has a railway station, operated by SNCF, with frequent departure for Rouen-Rive-Droite and Paris-Saint-Lazare.

The first proposals for a second Seoul-Busan railway line originated from a study prepared between 1972 and 1974 by experts of France's SNCF and Japan Railway Technical Service ( JARTS ) on a request from the IBRD.

The SNCF decision, ignoring as it did the of high-voltage DC already installed on French routes, was influential in the standard selected for other countries in Europe.

From 1910 to 1951, the French industry built more than 500 decapods for three railway companies ( Paris-Orléans, Nord, Est ) and for the national railways ( SNCF ).

The station still sells tickets for the SNCF.

There are ticket machines in the station for both RER and SNCF trains, as well as staffed RER ticket windows and a small shop.

Phillips cites from the publicly available English introduction to the report, noting that while some SNCF workers worked with the Nazis, acts of sabotage were frequent, and the Nazis shot 819 SNCF workers for refusing to carry out the rail orders of the government.

Keolis and SNCF lawyers claim that the all documentation required by the law had been produced long before.

A high-speed SNCF TGV Duplex | double-decker TGV train in Toulon

SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network.

SNCF operates almost all of France's railway system, including the TGV ( Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning " High-Speed Train "), In the 1970s, SNCF began the TGV high-speed train program with the intention of creating the world's fastest railway network.

Today, SNCF operates 1, 850 km ( about 1, 150 miles ) of designated high-speed track that accommodate more than 800 high-speed trains per day.

On behalf of the Government of Taiwan, SNCF managed the high-speed rail Command Control Centre.

SNCF advised Korean Railroad on the electrification of track between Daegu and Busan and on linking existing conventional track to the new high-speed line.

SNCF also assisted in selecting and inspecting high-speed rolling stock and trained 400 senior manager, engineers, and executives in a broad range of skills, including signalling, catenaries, track, rolling stock maintenance, HSR operation, safety management, marketing, and passenger information systems.

Until the end of 2009, SNCF have assisted Korea in maintaining its high-speed.

SNCF partnered with the Spanish railroad infrastructure manager in the study, supply, installation, and maintenance of the standard EU rail signaling system along the Madrid-Lleida high-speed rail line.

On the rolling stock side, SNCF maintains 3, 900 locomotives and 500 high-speed trains.

In 1998 SNCF bowed to political pressure ( the tilt-train was a credible threat to the TGV dedicated high-speed line network ) and put in service an experimental TGV pendulaire.

* SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

SNCF runs double-deck TGV cars on heavily used high-speed services, such as on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille line.

A scheme exists for a high-speed rail with an X-type layout and links to the SNCF network in Hendaia ( NE ), Vitoria ( SE ), Bilbao ( W ) and Pamplona ( S ) ( works due finished by 2016 ).

The TGV Atlantique ( TGV-A ) is a class of high-speed trains used in France by SNCF ; they were built by Alstom between 1988 and 1992, and were the second generation of TGV trains, following on from the TGV Sud-Est.