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 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.

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 .).

* 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.

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

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.

SNCF operates the international ticketing agency, Rail Europe.

Sixty of these locomotives, numbered 37001-37060, have been ordered by Fret SNCF for international freight traffic.

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.

" 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.

The SNCF Class BB 16100 electric locomotives were converted from class BB 16000s by fitting TDM push-pull equipment to work the Paris Nord to St. Quentin / Amiens services as well as Paris St Lazare-Rouen.

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

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.

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.