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A TGV Sud-Est, the first trainset in regular service. The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) is a high-speed rail service, which started operation in 1981. This article is a list of all high-speed train services in France. This includes all international high-speed trains that make at least one station stop in France, as well as domestic high-speed ...
These are all the TGV (French: train à grande vitesse, meaning high-speed train) stations, listed alphabetically.This list includes new stations constructed specifically for the TGV as well as existing stations that are simply served by the trains.
In 2007, the TGV was the world's fastest conventional scheduled train: one journey's average start-to-stop speed from Champagne-Ardenne Station to Lorraine Station is 279.3 km/h (173.5 mph). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This record was surpassed on 26 December 2009 by the new Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway [ 19 ] in China where the fastest scheduled train ...
France has a large network of high-speed rail lines. As of June 2021, the French high-speed rail network comprises 2,800 km (1,740 mi) of tracks, [1] making it one of the largest in Europe and the world.
The city council of Los Angeles had desired since the 1910s to construct a Union station to replace the existing three terminal stations in Los Angeles: the Santa Fe's La Grande Station, the Southern Pacific's Central Station, and the Union Pacific's Salt Lake Station. As the proposed station would be built and owned by the city and open to all ...
The LGV Sud-Est (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse Sud-Est; English: South East high-speed line) is a French high-speed rail line which connects the Paris and Lyon areas. It was France's first high-speed rail line, it has also been the most widely used line in France as well as being the busiest high-speed line in Europe.
Both the ICE 3 and China Rail's Harmony and Fuxing trains beat the French TGV and Japanese Shinkansen, operating at 320 km/h (199 mph). This is the same speed that a lesser-known high-speed train ...
As Greater Los Angeles' main commuter rail service, Metrolink runs eight lines through Southern California. 91/Perris Valley Line (83.8 mile route between Union Station and Perris–South) Arrow (9 mile route between San Bernardino–Downtown and Redlands–University) Antelope Valley Line (76.6 mile route between Union Station and Lancaster)