* SNCF withdrew their three train ferry sailings on the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

Among the SNCF employees who joined the resistance, a subset were in Résistance-Fer which focused on reporting the movement of German troops to the Allied forces and sabotaging the railways rolling stock as well as infrastructure.

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.

SNCF was ranked 22 < sup > nd </ sup > in France and 214 < sup > th </ sup > globally on the Fortune Global 500 list.

SNCF also maintains a broad scope of international business that includes work on freight lines, inter-city lines and commute lines.

On behalf of the Spanish Government, SNCF designed and led maintenance operations on this line over a two-year period.

This ruling was overturned in 2007 when the Bordeaux appeal court ruled that the administrative courts did not have jurisdiction to rule on the legal liability of SNCF.

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.

Maryland passed a law requiring SNCF to fully disclose its role in the transporting of Jews to Nazi camps when Keolis bid on a MARC train contract in 2011.

SNCF has cut emissions on its cross-channel Paris To London route by 31 % in two years by using more electricity from non-fossil fuel sources.

In exchange, SNCF allows passengers on these flights to book rail service between Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy ( near Paris ) and Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon Part-Dieu, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poiters, Rennes, Tours, and Valence with their airline.

In 1956 SNCF experimented with a self-propelled pendulum car, which also relied on centrifugal force.

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.

Total traffic on the central sections of lines A and B, operated by RATP, was 452 million in 2006 ; in the same year, total traffic on all lines operated by SNCF ( both RER and Transilien trains ) was 657 million.

Other stations on the two lines and those on lines C, D and E are operated by SNCF.

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.

The predominance of suburban SNCF track on the RER network explains why RER trains use overhead line power and run on the left, like SNCF trains ( except in Alsace-Moselle ), contrary to the Métro where trains use third rail power and run on the right.

The 25 kV system was then adopted as standard in France, but since substantial amounts of mileage south of Paris had already been electrified at 1, 500 V DC, SNCF also continued some major new DC electrification projects, until dual-voltage locomotives were developed in the 1960s.

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.

RFF contracts all track maintenance and operation of signalling to SNCF, which also retains ownership of all stations.

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.

* 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.

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

Silver Arrow / Flèche d ' argent was a joint operation between British Railways, Silver City and Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer français ( SNCF ).

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

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

Quevy ( fr ) represents the virtual tariff border between the French SNCF and Belgian Railways SNCB.

Regional authorities have begun to specify schedules since the mid of the 1970s with general conventions between the regions and the SNCF since the mid of the 1980s.

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.

In late 2009 Eurotunnel and SNCF acquired Veolia Cargo splitting the business between them ; Eurotunnel took over French operations: the subsidiaries Veolia Cargo France, Veolia Cargo Link and CFTA Cargo acquired by Eurotunnel are expected to be rebranded as Europorte France, Europorte Link and Europorte proximity and become part of its Europorte freight business.

The Elipsos Train Hotels ( Trenhotel ) operated jointly between RENFE and SNCF operate from here to Madrid & Barcelona.

* A former rail / air service between London and Paris ( via Le Touquet ), jointly operated by Silver City ( airline ), British Rail and SNCF

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

Two proposals were made by the transport companies: the SNCF suggested a new tunnel between Châtelet and Gare de Lyon for Line D of the RER allowing traffic to circulate from the north and south-east of Île-de-France.

Artésia was a company 50 % owned by Trenitalia and 50 % owned by SNCF, operating trains between France and Italy ; however, it stopped operating in November 2011.

Trenitalia is a stake holder in the operation of the Alpine Rail Motorway ( ARM ) between France and Italy along with SNCF.

One of the biggest towns in Gipuzkoa, its border town situation ( it is located on the border between Spain and France, across the Bidasoa river from Hendaye ), has made Irun into a commercial and logistic centre, with important railway infrastructure, where the SNCF rails meet the 1, 668 mm ( 5 ft 5 in ) broad gauge Renfe ones.

* May 26 – SNCF sets a new speed record in France when TGV train number 531 travels the between Calais and Marseilles in 3 hours and 29 minutes at an average speed of 317. 46 km / h ( 197. 26 mph ).

Budd-patented processes and designs were also used in France and Belgium after World War II to construct SNCF electric-powered multiple-unit cars, push-pull suburban trainsets, Wagons-Lits sleeping cars and even a small class of SNCF and SNCB four-current six-axle high speed electric locomotives for Trans Europ Express service between Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Meanwhile, France's SNCF also developed and introduced ten quadruple-voltage locomotives, its Class CC 40100, between 1964 and 1970.

The SNCF train service between Marseille and Toulon stops at La Ciotat, almost every hour during the day except for the mid-day one hour break.

The first railway to use this system was completed in 1951 by SNCF between Aix-les-Bains and La Roche-sur-Foron in southern France, initially at 20 kV but converted to 25 kV in 1953.

:* – SNCF announces that a new high speed train connection between Paris and Frankfurt will be built ; it is expected to open in 2007, with ridership estimates as high as 1. 5 million per year.

The SNCF Class BB 16500 electric locomotives were built by Alsthom between 1958-1964.

The BB 22200 is a class of electric locomotives in service with the French railways SNCF, built by Alsthom between 1976 and 1986.