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    The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Est européenne (East European High Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Est, is a French high-speed rail line that connects...
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    The LGV Interconnexion Est is a French high-speed rail line that connects the LGV Nord, LGV Est, LGV Sud-Est and LGV Atlantique through the suburbs of...
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    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...
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    being constructed or planned. The first French high-speed railway, the LGV Sud-Est, linking the suburbs of Paris and Lyon, opened in 1981. In addition to...
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    high-speed rail lines. It was originally ordered by the SNCF for use on the LGV Est, which was put into service in 2007. POS is an abbreviation of...
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    2024 Summer Olympics, a series of arson attacks damaged the LGV Atlantique, Nord, and Est lines of the French high-speed railway system. International...
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    TGV (section On LGVs)
    Following the inaugural service between Paris and Lyon in 1981 on the LGV Sud-Est, the network, centred on Paris, has expanded to connect major cities...
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  • rail lines: LGV Atlantique LGV Est LGV Interconnexion Est LGV Nord LGV Méditerranée LGV Picardie LGV Rhône-Alpes LGV Rhin-Rhône LGV Sud-Est LGV Sud Europe...
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    metres per second, was a series of high-speed trials carried out on the LGV Est. The V150 was a specially configured TGV high-speed train (weighing only...
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    shortly before the opening of the LGV Sud-Est and ended with a speed record of 380 km/h (236 mph) set by TGV Sud-Est trainset number 16. Operations TGV...
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    Eckwersheim derailment (category 21st century in Grand Est)
    France, while performing commissioning trials on the second phase of the LGV Est high-speed rail line, which was scheduled to open for commercial service...
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    Lorraine TGV station (category Grand Est railway station stubs)
    Lorraine TGV) is a railway station located in Louvigny, France, on the LGV Est, a high-speed rail line running from Paris to Strasbourg. Opened in 2007...
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    been extended, by the LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire and the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique. The first French high speed line, LGV Sud-Est, was opened to the public...
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    Champagne-Ardenne TGV station (category Grand Est railway station stubs)
    Bezannes, France that opened in 2007 along with the first phase of the LGV Est, a high-speed rail line running from Paris to Strasbourg. It is situated...
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    Gare de l'Est (redirect from Réseau Est)
    the departure of these soldiers for the Western front. The SNCF started LGV Est Européenne services from the Gare de l'Est on 10 June 2007, with TGV and...
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    the north (Belgium, the Channel Tunnel) and the south (via the LGV Interconnexion Est) have reduced journey times to Great Britain and Benelux and for...
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    licensed for operation in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. On the French LGV Est, some trains reach a regular top speed of 320 km/h (200 mph). The 17 class...
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    western and southwestern France TGV Ouest and LGV Atlantique Gare du Nord: trains to northern France LGV Nord to Lille-Europe Eurostar to London, Belgium...
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    was opened in several stages between 1849 and 1852. The opening of the LGV Est high speed line from Paris to Baudrecourt in Lorraine in 2007 has decreased...
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    Atlantique's world record was beaten on the 3 April 2007, by a TGV POS set on the LGV Est, which reached a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph). List of high speed...
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    Strasbourg Airport (category Airports in Grand Est)
    subsidies from the airport. After the opening of the first phase of the new LGV Est high-speed rail line from Paris to Strasbourg, there was a significant...
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    LGV Est France SNCF TGV POS Set No. 4402 Multi AC Tuned Set formed of 5 cars. Current world record on steel rails. 568 km/h (353 mph) 2007-04-01 LGV Est...
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    Saverne Tunnel (category Transport in Grand Est)
    5 mi), high-speed rail tunnel in western Bas-Rhin, France. It carries the LGV Est line of France's TGV high-speed rail network through the narrowest part...
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    over the LGV Est to Paris Est. One train pair per day starts or ends in Munich. The line 84 connects Frankfurt with Marseille over the LGV Rhin-Rhône...
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  • The LGV Picardie is a proposed French high-speed rail line running between Paris and Calais, via Amiens, in Northern France. When the LGV Nord was planned...
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    double-decker coaches. Later high-speed rail lines, such as the LGV Atlantique, the LGV Est, and most high-speed lines in France, were designed as feeder...
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    High Speed 1 (redirect from LGV Londres)
    this was higher than other projects in many other countries. The French LGV Est, a line built largely through near-flat fields (save for the Saverne Tunnel)...
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    opens with ETCS L2. By 2025 : SNCF Réseau is currently upgrading the LGV Sud-Est (LGV 1) to ETCS L2 standards. Deployment is scheduled for 2025. From 2027...
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    organized the symbolic delivery of the first train on 30 May 2011 on the LGV Est. The 2007 contract included an option for 40 additional trains. SNCF exercised...
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    design was further refined into the third generation Euroduplex. The LGV Sud-Est from Paris to Lyon is the busiest high-speed line in France.[citation...
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