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 30000 SNCF Class BB 30000 The SNCF Class BB 30000 electric locomotives were built by Fives-Lille, CEM and MTE in 1961. They were the tri-current version of BB 9400 "Vespa" locomotives, of which they were closely derived, and inherited much of the knowledge of the experiences of BB 20004. With electrification of the mayor European axes pending in the late-1950s, SNCF engineers dreamed of a locomotive type which could operate of all 4 major European currents: 1.5 kV DC, 3 kV DC, and . Unfortunately, the technology to develop such kinds of locomotives wasn't advanced enough at that time. Therefore, the