Compagnie des chemins de fer du Maroc

The Compagnie des chemins de fer du Maroc (CFM) was a railway company in Morocco . It was founded as a stock corporation under French law with a starting capital of 50 million francs and on August 21, 1920 received the concession for the railway network designed for Morocco, then under the rule of France and Spain . The main shareholders were the Compagnie générale du Maroc, the Compagnie marocaine, the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) and the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO).

Initially, all Moroccan railway lines - they had to fulfill military purposes - contained the gauge of 600 millimeters. By 1936 they were fully converted to standard gauge . Under the aegis of the CFM, sections of the route were opened as follows:

• Rabat - Salé - Kénitra - Sidi Kacem : April 5, 1923
• Casablanca - Rabat : April 21, 1925
• Casablanca - Sidi el Aïdi - Settat - Mechra Ben Abbou : June 14, 1925
• Mechra Ben Abbou - Marrakech : November 7th, 1928
• Benguérir - Youssoufia : November 23, 1932
• Youssoufia– Safi : May 7, 1936

In 1963, a few years after Morocco gained independence from the French colonial power, the CFM was absorbed into the newly founded state railway company, the ONCF .