SNCF Infra SNCF Infra SNCF Infra was the infrastructure division of SNCF, 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 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, the French Minister for Transport, announced plans
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