International rail transport: our expertise is exported

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A reference player in high-speed rail and railway engineering, SNCF Réseau provides its expertise to its international partners. Backed by their recognised expertise, our teams support infrastructure managers and contracting authorities through technical assistance assignments throughout the entire life cycle of railway projects.

SNCF Réseau on the international scene

Our advice helping with...
+130

million euros

of investments

+4,000

km

of open lines

4/5

is the satisfaction rate

of our customers

Our international services

We assist our partners with major investment projects for new lines and upgrades to existing lines.

The main services include: 

  • Contracting authority support 
  • Preparing for operation and maintenance 
  • Technical and capacity expert appraisals 
  • Training/Monitoring 
  • Shadow Operator 
  • Drafting rail standards 
  • Asset management 
  • Audits 
  • Catenary (high-speed and conventional lines) licence and expert appraisals and power supply 
  • Licence to use SNCF Réseau standards 

Customer cases

SNCF Réseau X Správa Železnic

Správa Železnic, Czech infrastructure manager

SNCF Réseau X SETER

Société d’exploitation et de maintenance de la ligne TER (SETER)

Skills transfer

Expertise also means training. We ensure the necessary transfer of expertise to future railway infrastructure operators and maintainers. In addition to this on-site support, we offer our customers the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of safety, service, catenaries and track. 

Focus on rail standards

SNCF Réseau issues reference systems on behalf of certain customers.

We provide our customers with SNCF Réseau regulatory texts, sold in the form of an access licence. The texts may relate to the design, works, safety and security, operation or maintenance of the network, depending on requirements. 

We can also draw up the regulations for our customers' networks abroad, taking account of local particularities, particularly in terms of operation and maintenance. 

They have placed their trust in us 

In Europe: 

  • Správa Železnic, Czech infrastructure manager 
  • Infrabel, Belgian infrastructure manager 
  • CFL, Luxembourg infrastructure manager 

In Africa: 

  • SETER, operator/maintainer of TER Dakar 
  • SETRAG, operator/maintainer of the Trans-Gabon railway 

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All our activities contribute to developing rail traffic: marketing access to the network, orchestrating train traffic, maintaining and modernizing facilities, developing the service offering, etc.