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In the past SNCF also owned the tracks, but this has changed due to EU Directive 91 / 440.
RFF contracts all track maintenance and operation of signalling to SNCF, which also retains ownership of all stations.
SNCF also maintains a broad scope of international business that includes work on freight lines, inter-city lines and commute lines.
In 1956 SNCF experimented with a self-propelled pendulum car, which also relied on centrifugal force.
SNCF operates also buses to Gisors-Embranchement through Serqueux.
The river Scarpe flows through the town, which is also served by the SNCF railway.
The station is also served by the SNCF ( Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français ), France's national railway.
Phillips also notes that SNCF does business with the Israeli rail system and works without government prompting to educate the current generation about the war and Holocaust.
The preferred organisational structure in the 1970s was for the BRB to form wholly owned subsidiaries which were run at an arm's-length relationship, e. g. the railway engineering works became British Rail Engineering Limited ( BREL ) in 1970 ; the ferry operations to Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were run by Sealink ( U. K .) Ltd, part of the Sealink consortium, which also used ferries owned by the French national railway SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority Regie voor maritiem transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ), and the Dutch Zeeland Steamship Company.
EuroCity trains are run by a variety of operators, for example EuroCity trains running in Germany can be made up by rolling stock of either the SBB ( Switzerland ), ÖBB ( Austria ) and the SNCF ( France ), but also less commonly by the Czech ČD and the Hungarian MÁV.
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.
Services to France, Belgium and the Netherlands were also run by Sealink UK as part of the Sealink consortium which also used ferries owned by French national railways, the SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority, Regie voor Maritiem Transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ) and the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland ( Zeeland Steamship Company ).
The agreement with the SNCF on the Dover-Calais route also ended at this time and the French run Sealink services were rebranded as SeaFrance.
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.
The French DC 25 kV CC locomotives of series 14000 and 14100 of the SNCF, used mainly for iron ore trains on the Thionville-Valencienne line, were also nicknamed " crocodile ".
264 of the class were ordered by SNCF, only 234 were built, the last 30 of the order were instead built as a new triple voltage design capable of also operating on 3kV DC ; these used asynchronous electric motors and became the SNCF Class BB 36000 ( Asytrit ).
They have also been used to haul the SNCF TGV Iris 320 test train through the Channel Tunnel.
In the late 1970s, British Rail and SNCF appointed MHA and Setec as advisors to a smaller-scale project which also came to nothing.
Châtelet – Les Halles is also the station where the second part of the RATP-managed IMAGE project was installed, which consisted of 10 flat screens containing information on local traffic from all carriers ( RATP, SNCF, etc .).

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

SNCF and high-speed
A high-speed SNCF TGV Duplex | double-decker TGV train in Toulon
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.
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.
SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration ’ s main high-speed rail line.
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 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.
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 Voyages is responsible for long distance and high-speed passenger services.
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.

SNCF and rolling
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 1961, Mulhouse City Council offered land in Dornach to allow the SNCF to present their historical rolling stock, representative of the company's history.

SNCF and stock
* 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.
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.

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