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 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.

SNCF codeshares with Air Austral, Air France, Air Tahiti Nui, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Middle East Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, and SriLankan Airlines.

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 )

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

* Elipsos: 50 % owned by SNCF, 50 % owned by RENFE, the Spanish railway operator.

* July 1 – Elipsos ( Elipsos Internacional S. A .) – a joint-venture company established by the Spanish and French rail companies SNCF and RENFE to run night-time passenger connections from Spain to France, Switzerland, and Italy – begins operations.

SNCF argued at trial that they were at the time under orders of the German military ; the railroad further argued that the German military threatened to shoot any railroad official who disobeyed their orders.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

SNCF experts provide logistics, design, construction, operations and maintenance services.

* 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.

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.

* Latour-de-Carol is unusual in being a " junction " for lines of three different gauges: metre gauge of the Yellow Train ( Train Jaune / Tren Groc ), the standard gauge of SNCF and the Iberian gauge of RENFE.

* Last standard gauge compound locomotives built: Norfolk and Western Railway 2-8-8-2 Class Y6b Mallet # 2200 from its Roanoke Shops, the last conventional steam freight locomotive for road service constructed in the United States ; and SNCF Class 241P mixed-traffic 4-cylinder Chapelon 4-8-2 # 241P-35 at Le Creusot in France.

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.

In 1995 the locomotives were converted back to standard SNCF Class BB 22200 type.

In the past SNCF also owned the tracks, but this has changed due to EU Directive 91 / 440.