This obscure financial link that unites two SNCF subsidiaries for better and for worse

Lifebuoy for one, ball at the foot for the other. When it was created at the time of the major railway reform of 2014, the “state support fundwas supposed to participate in the economic recovery of the manager of the national rail network, the former Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) which became SNCF Réseau, via the allocation of part of the profits of the SNCF group to the former RFF. But although presented at the time as a remedy to save the 30,000 km of French rails from decay, this financial link is now proving insufficient, even poisonous.