SNCF de fer", literally, 'path of iron', means railway). These were the: The French state originally took 51% ownership of SNCF and invested large amounts of public subsidies into the system. Today, SNCF is wholly owned by the French state. Following the 1940 Armistice and until August 1944, SNCF was requisitioned for the transport of German armed forces and armaments. The invading German troops were responsible for the destruction of nearly 350 French railway bridges and tunnels. According to differing estimates, SNCF surrendered between 125,000-213,000 wagons and 1,000-2,000 locomotives. France's railway infrastructure and rolling stocks were a target for the French
China Railway No.2 Group the State Council. In January 2017, China Railway Group Limited backdoor listing some assets, as well as privatized China Railway Erju's subsidiary China Railway Erju Engineering Co., Ltd. (). China Railway Erju was renamed to China Railway Hi-tech Industry (CRHIC) after the transactions. The predecessor of the company was found in 1998 (China Railway No.2 Group Co., Ltd., ), which could be traced back to 1978, as the Second Bureau of Engineering of the Ministry of Railways. () The original second bureau could traced back the history to 1950, but in 1978 the bureau was split into the [new] second