Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

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

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 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, the French rail company, has its head office in Montparnasse and the 14th arrondissement.

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

The French state originally took 51 % ownership of SNCF and invested large amounts of public subsidies into the system.

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

In addition, SNCF donated to the French Shoah Memory Foundation a 3. 5 hectare field near a train station from which most deportations to Nazi camps departed.

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

Hessaby was admitted to the École Superieure d ' Electricité and in 1925 graduated while he was employed by the SNCF ( French National Railway ).

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

The remainder of the system is owned by the RFF, the owner of the French national rail network, and the SNCF, the French national rail operator, operates trains on all five lines.

* SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

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 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.

First used in electric locomotives from the 1920s, the Buchli drive was mainly used by the French SNCF and Swiss Federal Railways.

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 ).

When bidding was reopened in 2011, Maryland passed a law requiring Keolis's majority owner, SNCF, wholly owned by the French government, to fully disclose its role in transporting of Jews to concentration camps during World War II, while SNCF was under control of the Nazi government, at the behest of Leo Bretholz and other Holocaust survivors.

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.

He got involved in politics following his activities in the French Resistance – while working at SNCF during World War II.

It was developed during the 1970s by GEC-Alsthom ( now Alstom ) and SNCF.

Tribute to SNCF personnel killed during the Second World War in Metz railway station.

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.

In 2001, SNCF was sued by the father of MEP Alain Lipietz because of the railroad ’ s role in transporting members of his family to the Drancy internment camp during World War II.

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.

In 1996 the president of SNCF, Louis Gallois, announced that SNCF would move its headquarters to a new location during the middle of 1997.

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.

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

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

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.

After the Second World War, SNCF bought 77 S100's and designated them class 030TU.

Three locomotives, 90128, 90129 and 90130, received special " continental " liveries ( NMBS / SNCB blue, DB red, SNCF grey respectively ) to celebrate the Freightconnection event in 1992.

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.

The SNCF TGV Réseau ( TGV-R ) trains were built by Alstom between 1992 and 1996.

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.

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

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

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 ').

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.

Although Papon claimed that he had used ordinary trains, and not livestock trains as used by the SNCF in numerous other transfers, the historians asserted that he was trying to prevent any demonstration of sympathy toward the Jews from the local population.

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.

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.

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 last decapod, a SNCF 150P, was withdrawn in 1968.