Histoire du TGV
This year marked the inaugural commercial service of the TGV
What is 1981?
The LGV Sud-Est connects Paris to this city.
What is Lyon?
This is the manufacturer of TGV trains
What is Alstom?
This country operates high-speed trains based on TGV technology, called KTX.
What is South Korea?
This French president inaugurated the first TGV line between Paris and Lyon.
Who is François Mitterrand?
This was the original top speed of the TGV Sud-Est when it entered service.
What is 270 km/h?
This is the type of current collector on the TGV Atlantique
What is the Pantograph?
This is the world's first high-speed rail line.
What is Tokaido Shinkansen?
The only gas-turbine TGV
What is the TGV 001?
This year saw the last TGV Sud-Est set retired from commercial service.
What is 2019?
This is the name of the suspension used in almost all TGV trains
What is SR10?
This is the world's worst-ever high-speed rail disaster in terms of the number of people killed.
What is the Eschede train disaster?
The industrial designer of the first TGVs.
Who is Jacques Cooper?
This is the number of TGV Sud-Est trains built.
What is 111?
This is the original type of cab signal used on the TGV system in full.
What is Transmission Voie-Machine?
This is the name of the high-speed rail service between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco.
What is Al Boraq?
This is the Nickname of the first electric TGV prototype
What is Zébulon?
This is the name of Set 01 of TGV Sud-Est
What is Patrick?
This is the width of the standard-gauge railway used by TGV, and of course many other, trains in mm.
What is 1,435 mm?
This was the total length of China's high-speed railway system in kilometers by the end of 2023.
What is 45,000 kms?