1.   Both BT and CGE -- a water utility, property development and communications company -- have separately applied to buy into SNCF, the French railway company.

2.   Cegetel also has a joint venture with the French railway, the SNCF, to offer telephone services across its national communications network.

3.   Engineering consultancies Ove Arup and Halcrow, London Electricity Plc and the infrastructure arm of French national railway SNCF would each hold smaller shares, he said.

4.   Instead, the value of its battered shares dropped after reports that both British and French railways might sue it for revenue lost because of the shutdown.

5.   SNCF, the French national railway, said in a statement that it regretted that passenger trains had not been allowed to run through the tunnel starting today.

6.   So were all scheduled services on board Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train operated by the French railway SNCF and its British and Belgian counterparts.

7.   The telecommunications venture with French railway SNCF rockets Generale des Eaux from being primarily a mobile phone operator to being a full-fledged telecommunications services provider.

8.   Louis Gallois, chief executive of state-controlled aerospace group Aerospatiale SA, will be named head of French state railways SNCF, the Transportation Ministry said Tuesday.

9.   The French railway authority, known as SNCF, was not immediately available for comment on the story.

10.   We will also be examining one of the issues behind the wave of unrest - the restructuring of the French railway system.