How Sncf Monitors a Rail Network that Is Plagued by Thefts and Sabotages

Le Monde

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Regular incidents show that the French rail network – consisting of 28,000 kilometres of track, 3,200 stations and thousands of technical premises – remains vulnerable. To protect itself, SNCF invests in technologies as well as in security forces.

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In the dark and cold night of a Loiret field, the drone is placed on its launch ramp, a rail 45 degrees from the ground, from where it will take off. Its mission: to monitor the largest railway yard of the moment, on the Paris-Orléans line, a few hundred meters from there. The engine has the appearance of a small...