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    The TGV 001 (Train à Grande Vitesse 001) was an experimental gas turbine-powered TGV prototype built by Alstom in France. Commissioned in 1969, began testing...
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    high power over an extended period. The first prototype, TGV 001, was the only gas-turbine TGV: following the increase in the price of oil during the 1973...
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    steel wheels is held by the French TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), achieved on 3 April 2007 on the new LGV Est. The TGV 001 was an experimental gas turbine-electric...
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    Turbotrain TGV 001 set the world speed record for gas turbine-powered rail vehicles with 318 km/h (198 mph) on 8 December 1972. This TGV 001 was a five-car...
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  • rail. Thus was born the turbotrain TGV 001, standing for Train à Grande Vitesse, or High Speed Train 001. The TGV 001 turbotrain was a test train for a...
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    gas-turbine "TGV 001" prototype, and the electric "Zébulon", in 1977, the SNCF placed an order to the group Alstom–Francorail–MTE for 87 TGV Sud-Est trainsets...
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    North America, the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) and the French TGV 001. By the 1970s, especially after the 1973 oil crisis, these advantages were...
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  • T16 and T16.1 TGV Atlantique TGV Duplex TGV La Poste TGV M TGV POS (Paris - Ostfrankreich - Süddeutschland) TGV Réseau TGV Sud-Est TGV-TMST (Trans-Manche...
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  • SNCF TGV Atlantique SNCF TGV Duplex SNCF TGV Iris 320 SNCF TGV La Poste SNCF TGV POS SNCF TGV Réseau SNCF TGV Sud-Est SNCF TGV Thalys PBKA TGV 001 DRG...
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  • International. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024. "SNCF confirms TGV of the Future order". Taiwan's High Speed Rail reaches 315 km/h in a test...
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    found on older web sites bearing the Canadair logos. The first TGV prototype, TGV 001, was powered by a gas turbine, but steep oil prices prompted the...
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    average family car would in that period. In comparison, the first TGV prototype, TGV 001, also powered by gas turbines, covered 320,000 kilometres (200,000 mi)...
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    Turbotrain (related to the prototype precursor to the very first TGV trainset, the TGV 001). The RTGs used European-style couplers (buffers and turnbuckles)...
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    KTX-I (redirect from TGV-K)
    The KTX-I, also known as the TGV-K or Korail Class 100000, is a South Korean high speed train class based on the French TGV Réseau. The 20-car formation...
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    - 50 Hz) on 23 May 2005 between Épinal et Remiremont, in anticipation of TGV services which began on 10 June 2007. This coincided with the opening of...
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    construction project. In 1991 the locomotives returned to France to work on new TGV lines. All were scrapped in France between 1997 and 1999. In October 1986...
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    inspection trains on the Japanese Shinkansen network TGV Iris 320, high-speed inspection trains on the French TGV network New Measurement Train, a British departmental...
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    and deliver a high speed train or HS-Train, which ended up in service with TGV in France. Currently, there are a number of manufacturers designing and building...
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  • TEE service; rebuilt 1988-89 to RABe EC TGV 112, 114 TGV 500 (TGV PSE) 112, 114 2 2 3006 TGV 4406 TGV 4400 (TGV POS) 4406 2006 1 1 320 9280 Trainset in...
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    KTX-Cheongryong Oaris Shinkansen Series 500, N700, N700S, E5/H5, E6, E8 AVRIL TGV Sud-Est (refurbished), Atlantique, Réseau, Duplex, POS, 2N2, M (Avelia Horizon)...
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    acceleration and higher seating capacity. Also some trains, including TGV PSE, TGV TMST and TGV V150, use both non-passenger power cars and additional passenger...
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  • Eurostar TGV inOui Keolis (70%) Ouigo Ouigo España Raileurope.co.uk SNCF Connect SNCF Logistics Captrain France COMSA Rail Transport (25%) TGV Lyria (74%)...
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    connecting Latour-de-Carol and Toulouse, which in turn connects to France's TGVs at Toulouse, runs within two kilometres (1.2 miles) of the Andorran border...
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  • track "La Fête sauvage I" as a launch promotion for the then-new high-speed TGV services in 1981. 5 35 mm, colour Released in France in 1976 Length: 89 minutes...
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    innermost three departments around Paris, airports and high-speed rail (TGV) stations, at an estimated cost of €35 billion. The system is scheduled to...
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    belonging to the regional railway network TER Grand Est. It is served by TGV (high speed) trains and by regional express transport trains. Established...
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    SPARK Ada. It is also used in the French TVM in-cab signalling system on the TGV high-speed rail system, and the metro suburban trains in Paris, London, Hong...
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    heavy trains, for a total of 14,000 kW (19,000 hp) (which is more than one TGV). The E.464 can be coupled with other modern types like the E.402. The locomotive...
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    43000 – unusual because BR TOPS classification numbered its locomotives from 001 upwards (this was because it was not, at the time, classified as a locomotive)...
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  • 499 cc auto rickshaw 6.6 kW (8.9 hp) 700 kg (1,500 lb) 9 W/kg / 0.0054 hp/lb TGV BR Class 373 high-speed Eurostar Trainset 1993 12,240 kW (16,410 hp) 816 t...
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