SNCF main business of the SNCF Group, which in 2017 had €33.5 billion of sales in 120 countries. The SNCF Group employs more than 260,000 people. Since July 2013, the SNCF Group headquarters are located in a Parisian suburb at 2 Place aux Étoiles in Saint-Denis. The President of the SNCF Group is Guillaume Pepy. SNCF operates almost all of France's railway system, including the TGV ("Train à Grande Vitesse", meaning "High-speed train"). In the 1970s, the SNCF began the TGV high-speed train programme with the intention of creating the world's fastest railway network. It came to fruition in 1981, when
SNCF 150.P SNCF 150.P SNCF 150.P were a class of 2-10-0 “Decapod” steam locomotives built as standard locomotives of the newly created Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) between April 1940 and April 1950 The class were built by: The 115 locomotives were delivered between 16 April 1940 and 15 April 1950. They were, in effect a continuation, with improvements, of a Nord design, Nord 5.1201 to 5.1230 (SNCF 2-150.B.1 to 30); they were ordered due to a shortage locomotives for heavy trains. The first 50 locomotives were requisitioned by Germany for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, some as soon as they