The line runs from a connection with the SNCF at Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet station to the Nid d ' Aigle station at the Bionnassay glacier at an altitude of.

The line runs from a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of.

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.

Since the late 1980s, SNCF has been running double-deck RER trains.

Painted in the blue and white livery of Transilien, the brand name for the SNCF network around Paris, these locomotives are the passenger equivalent of the freight-only Class BB 27000 and are equipped for push-pull operation on suburban passenger services in the Île-de-France region around Paris, working with refurbished VB2N double-deck carriages.

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.

A TGV train in Marseille operated by the publicly owned SNCF.

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.

SNCF ’ s TGV trains carry more than 100 million passengers a year.

After nearly 30 years in operation, SNCF ’ s TGV system has never experienced a fatal accident.

Each of SNCF ’ s TGV trains travels more than a month – enough to circle the globe.

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.

The town's train station is served by SNCF and TGV trains, including some that provide overnight ' sleeper ' services.

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.

* SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

* Intercity and TGV schedules from SNCF

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.

* SNCF TGV La Poste French Post Office dedicated TGV sets

* Thalys PBA, trainsets of the SNCF TGV Réseau

** SNCF disallows smoking on all French TGV trains.

SNCF billed Nazi-occupied France for third-class tickets, although passengers were transported in cattle cars.

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.

Its successor, the SNCF, has been running VB2N double-decker coaches since 1975 ; VB2N were introduced from 1975 as a replacement of the État cars.

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.

Notably in 1968 a ticket valid for use in the bus and metro, the Ticket ivoire commun ( common ivory ticket ) was introduced and three years later a ticket valid in the SNCF, buses, metro and cars de banlieue was launched.

* 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 also maintains a broad scope of international business that includes work on freight lines, inter-city lines and commute lines.

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.

In 1956 SNCF experimented with a self-propelled pendulum car, which also relied on centrifugal force.

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.