SNCF Infra was the infrastructure division of
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th ...
, the former nationalised railway operator in France. It has 51,000 employees and revenue was €5.5Bn in 2012.
In order to comply with
EU regulations
A regulation is a legal act of the European Union which becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously. Regulations can be distinguished from directives which, at least in principle, need to be transposed into nation ...
on opening up railways to competition, SNCF was to be split into two parts; SNCF would continue to own trains whilst
RFF managed infrastructure. However, many infrastructure staff were never transferred to
Réseau Ferré de France, so RFF delegates work to SNCF Infra. This has caused several problems, and SNCF still has a monopoly. In October 2012,
Frédéric Cuvillier
Frédéric Cuvillier (; born at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 9 December 1968) is a French politician who, until his appointment as Junior Minister for Transport and the Maritime Economy at the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy by ...
, the French Minister for Transport, announced plans to combine rail infrastructure into a single organisation,
Gestionnaire d’Infrastructure Unifié, or GIU.
SNCF Infra has a number of subsidiaries, including
SYSTRA
SYSTRA is a multinational engineering and consulting group in the mobility sector, whose fields of activity include rail and public transport. SYSTRA employs about 10,300 people worldwide, and is a limited company which shareholders include Fr ...
,
and the
Direction de la Circulation Ferroviaire (DCF), a nominally independent body which manages traffic on behalf of RFF.
On 1 January 2015,
Réseau ferré de France (RFF) merged with SNCF Infra and the Direction de la circulation ferroviaire (DCF) and became ''SNCF Réseau''.
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Rail infrastructure in France
SNCF companies and subsidiaries