SNCF Infra to combine rail infrastructure into a single organisation, Gestionnaire d'Infrastructure Unifié, or GIU. SNCF Infra has a number of subsidiaries, including SYSTRA, 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". 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
SNCF Class BB 20004 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 were all rebuilt from a DC locomotive and could only deliver their full power under 25 kV. Power output under 1.5 kV was reduced to 10% of the full power which is nearly negligible. This was however no real problem, as these locomotives