This train is the standard trainset after the World Speed Record. Both of these locomotives have been integrated on the TGV V150 trainset who have running at 574,8 Km/h on April 03, 2007. See here... (more)
TGV from Tours to Paris Montparnasse is waiting for departure at 3.11pm in the station Tours. This train made the worldrecord 515.3 km/h on may 18, 1990 (written on the blue tablet near the door t... (more)
New-built doble-deck "TGV Duplex" cars wait to be coupled together to form a new trainset at Alstom's La Rochelle plant.
In 2011, for 30 years of high speed in France, the SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) decorated one of his TGV. It's PSE number 65.
View from this low angle, the TGV PSE #91 looks very impressive. The TGV PSE used to run between Paris and Lyon. They never came to Mulhouse on normal duty. This TGV has been named after the city ... (more)
The 27th of September 1981, the first TGV line opened to the public with its first line going from Paris to Lyon and back, making the two cities 425 kilometers (265 miles) apart only at a mere 2 h... (more)
Cab view of a testing run at 353,5 Km/h (~220 mph, see the speed tachymeter on the left corner of front window) in this Dasye TGV trainset on the new high speed line named "LGV Rhin Rhone". This n... (more)
Cab view of a Dasye TGV 746 trainset before leaving new Besançon TGV station for a test run at up to 359 km/h (~223 mph) on the new high speed line named "LGV Rhin Rhone". This line is not opened... (more)
The undulating nature of the SNCF LGV lines is evident in this view of a pair of Paris Sud-Est TGV sets on a southbound service from Paris to Lyon near St.Ythaire north of Macon.
essais d'endurance avant la mise en service
Here this is the French postal high speed train running at 270 Km/h
Here is a much more recent archive photo taken by the late O.S. Nock of the prototype TGV having a break during a test run. The date and location of this photo is unknown - over to you Jean-Marc! ... (more)
The TGV 4402 of the record of the world of speed (574.8Km / hour) makes its last running. On the LGV EST near Châlon-en-Champagne.
World Speed record's train (574,8 km/H)
