Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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railroad name | Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français |
logo filename | SNCF.svg |
locale | France |
predecessor line | See SNCF History |
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hq city | Montparnasse and 14th arrondissement, Paris |
website | sncf.com/en_EN/flash/ }} |
SNCF employs more than 180,000 people in 120 countries across the globe. The rail network consists of about 32,000 km (20,000 mi) of route, of which 1,800 km (1,100 mi) are high-speed lines and 14,500 km (9,000 mi) electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily. The chairman of SNCF is Guillaume Pépy. Its headquarters is in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, in the Rue du Commandant Mouchotte.
As of 2010 SNCF is rank 22 in France and 214 globally on the Fortune Global 500.
In the past SNCF also owned the European tracks, but this has changed due to EU Directive 91/440. Since 1997 the tracks and other rail infrastructure have belonged to a separate government establishment, Réseau Ferré de France; this change was intended to open the market to independent train operating companies, although few have yet appeared.
SNCF's TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on April 3, 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, was able to cover more ground with each rotation and had a stronger 25,000 hp (18,600 kW) engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph).
SNCF has a remarkable safety record. After nearly 30-years in operation, SNCF’s TGV system has never experienced a fatal accident.
SNCF has employees in 120 countries offering extensive overseas and cross border consulting. Those projects include:
• Israel: Assistance and Training. SNCF International provides assistance to Israel Railways in every area of rail operations including projects to upgrade the network's general safety regulations. Other assistance and training programs involve Infrastructure and the Traction Division.
• Taiwan: Operations Training. SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration’s main high-speed rail line. It also trained rail traffic controllers, drivers, and crew members. On behalf of the Government of Taiwan, SNCF managed the high-speed rail Command Control Centre.
• United Kingdom: Maintenance. In 2007-2008, SNCF-International consultants audited the maintenance practices applied to the track, signalling and overhead electric power line on British high-speed rail lines connecting London to the Channel Tunnel. In addition, it conducted an audit of the maintainer’s performance from the service quality and cost control standpoint, made recommendations for improvements, and proposed a three-year Business Plan.
• South Korea: HSR Electrification Design. 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. 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. Until the end of 2009, SNCF have assisted Korea in maintaining its high-speed.
• Spain: Signalling System. 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. On behalf of the Spanish Government, SNCF designed and led maintenance operations on this line over a two-year period.
• France: Lead Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Maintainer – The scope of SNCF’s maintenance duties is staggering: it maintains 32,000 km (20,000 miles) 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. Each of SNCF’s TGV trains travels more than 39,000 km (24,000 miles) a month – enough to circle the globe. Each year SNCF’s Human Resources Department provides over 1.2 million hours of training to its over 25,000 employees.
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 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 deportation camp during World War II. In 2006 the administrative court in Toulouse found SNCF guilty of aiding in deportations. 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. On further appeal, the court's lack of jurisdiction was upheld by France's Conseil d'Etat.
The first time that SNCF publicly expressed regret for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps in World War II was in November 2010. Multiple sources have linked this change of language to the lucrative market for high-speed rail contracts in the United States of America, since the SNCF has been criticized in the US for failing to apologize for its involvement. For example in 2010, a California legislator introduced a bill requiring all companies bidding on California rail projects to disclose involvement in transporting Holocaust victims.
On 25 January 2011 the president of the SNCF, Guillaume Pépy, expressed his company's first formal public apology directly to Holocaust victims. In addition, the SNCF donated to the French Shoah Memory Foundation a 3.5 hectares field near a train station from which some Holocaust victims were transported to Nazi camps.
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 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. SNCF’s 39 manufacturing facilities are in the process of “going green” and 9 sites are already ISO 14000 certified. SNCF developed an interactive website to help travellers calculate the environmental impact of their travel choices.
Continental Airlines discontinued its codeshare with SNCF as of August 15, 2010.
SNCF used to have its head office in the Saint-Lazare area of the 9th arrondissement. In 1996 the president of SNCF, Louis Gallois, announced that SNCF would move its headquarters to a new location during the middle of 1997.
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