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Innovative systems for monitoring the rail network
Discover how our teams use high-performance lasers, sensors and radars to better protect and maintain rail infrastructure.
Our biggest network upgrade of 2025
Every day, 400 people are hard at work on the Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse line, renewing 800 meters of track.
SNCF Group Key figures
Check out « L’essentiel 2025 »We are
No.1
for recruitment in France and the third employer
Discover howFor
10 years
Our 50,000 agents at SNCF Réseau have been working day and night to maintain the infrastructure.
Learn more about SNCF VoyageursMore than
25 million
passengers traveled on TGV and Intercités lines during Summer 2025
In French rail lingo, what’s a “mushroom”?
The button the train driver pushes to accelerate.
The rounded top part of the rail (known as the rail head in English).
The cloud of smoke rising from early locomotives.
A world-class French champion
With 290,000 employees - including 73,000 outside France -, our Group generates one third of its revenue internationally. Our activities are focused on 3 core markets: freight logistics spanning 170 countries, mass transit across five continents, and high-speed passenger transport.
