Economy of Paris 27.5 million euro, due to the weak European economy. The SNCF ("Société nationale des chemins de fer français", or "French National Railway Company") is France's national railway company which manages the rail traffic in France and the Principality of Monaco. It operates about 14,000 trains daily. It operates all of France's rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network. It owns 70 percent of the Thalys high-speed train to Belgium and the Netherlands, and 55 percent of the Eurostar from Paris to London. The SNCF is owned by the France state. In 2014 it had revenues of 36.138 million
SNCF Class BB 20004 equipments were either parts which were not used on BB16500 locomotives but on older locomotives, or entirely new designs. BB20004 contributed however a big part to the realisation of the BB25500 and later dual-voltage locomotives and expanded the knowledge of dual-voltage locomotives greatly. SNCF Class BB 20004 The SNCF class BB 20004 locomotive was a dual-voltage test-bed locomotive transformed from the damaged BB16540 in 1959. After the end of its test period in 1969 it was reinstated with its original equipment under its original number BB16540. SNCF had already experimented with three other dual-voltage locomotives in the 1950s, but these