For example, many bank installations, especially Automated Teller Machines, run OS / 2 with a customized user interface ; French SNCF national railways used OS / 2 1. x in thousands of ticket selling machines.

The court disagreed with SNCF concluding that there was no way that SNCF could have avoided knowledge of the prisoners ' likely deportation to concentration camps and that SNCF made no effort to either protest the transportation or to transport them in a humane manner.

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.

Since the 1990s, SNCF has been selling railway carriages to regional governments, with the creation of the Train Express Régional brand.

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.

SNCF was formed in 1938 with the nationalisation of France's five main railways ( Chemin de Fer in English means railway, literally, ' path of iron ').

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.

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.

Continental Airlines discontinued its codeshare with SNCF as of August 15, 2010.

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.

They share this distinction with the Red Cross, the abbey of Our Lady of Dombes and the state-railway company SNCF.

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.

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.

Agde can be reached by TGV SNCF train direct from Paris or Lille whilst the closest airports are Béziers-Cap d ' Agde en Languedoc, with direct budget airline services to the UK and Scandinavia, or Montpellier-Fréjorgues.

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

The nearest major town, with an SNCF train station, is Pontorson.

SUD unions are now important in the health care sector, education, transportation ( including the SNCF and Air France ), cultural institutions such as the Louvre, as well as in some companies such as Michelin, Thales, or even students with Sud-étudiant.

Mulhouse has its own SNCF station, Gare de Mulhouse, with a direct connection to Basel in Switzerland and several other regional and national destinations, including Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon and Besançon.

SNCF 241P Class with 34P bogie tender, being filled from a water crane ( Nantes Blotterau, France, August 1969 )

The French government owned the national railway company SNCF, the national electricity utility EDF, the national natural gas utility GDF, the national airline Air France ; phone and postal services were operated as the PTT administration.

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

Two stations in France are connected by bus to Andorra la Vella — L ' Hospitalet-près-l ' Andorre ( served by the SNCF ) and Latour-de-Carol, served by both SNCF's line to Toulouse and Spain's ( RENFE's ) line to Barcelona.

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.

* 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.

Between 1941 and 1944, SNCF transported nearly 77, 000 Jews and other Holocaust victims from France to Nazi death camps.

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 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.

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.

An important contribution to the wider adoption of AC traction came from SNCF of France after World War II.

* BR44 in France, SNCF 150X.

Moreover, at the end of World War II, SNCF inherited more than 200 units of German decapods built in France, mostly BR 44.

In general the station's SNCF services run to the south and east of France.

SNCF started LGV Est Europeen services from the Gare de l ' Est on 10 June 2007, with TGV and ICE services to north-eastern France, Luxembourg, southern Germany and Switzerland.

* France: see Rail transport in France or SNCF

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.

Arno Klarsfeld, the son of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, called the American criticisms of SNCF historically inaccurate.

The most numerous steam locomotive class France had, was the American and Canadian-built SNCF 141R class.