Amadeus Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 French train breaks world record Apr. 3 - France makes a new record for the world's fastest conventional train, reaching 574.8 km/h (357mph) east of Paris. The specially-configured train, with two locomotives and just three passenger cars, broke the record on a new line between Paris and Strasbourg. Story and Video In other news: Anorak sales have gone up 300% in the area east of Paris... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballaughbiker Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Amazing! It makes the UK trains look a bit sick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 It'd be no good to us, imagine trying to get off in Douglas! Stav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 For me its not so much the speed as the momentum which just takes my breath away - 400 tonnes of train going along at 360 mph - it would take quite some stopping if anything went wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallybug Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Here's the link to The Times article by Ben Webster, the only British journalist on-board[Times Online First few paragraphs: At 357mph, it was impossible to focus on anything within a mile of the train. Even distant hilltop villages flashed past in a second. The sense of flying across the landscape of the Champagne region was accentuated by being on the top deck of the TGV train. Engineers had laboured for months to ensure precision to the millimetre in the track geometry, but we still lurched alarmingly. The train seemed to rise from the tracks for one terrifying moment. We were travelling twice as fast as a passenger jet at the point of take-off, but there were no seatbelts. At that speed, they wouldn’t have saved us anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Timing is everything: A delegation from the state of California is visiting France this week to study the possibility of building a high-speed TGV line from Sacramento to San Diego by way of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Independent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 Found a little longer clip about it - seems, that was live on French TV: Clicky Plus, a more Anorak-orientated one about the train behind it: ClickMeDo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Found a little longer clip about it - seems, that was live on French TV: Clicky Amazing! Anyone else old enough to remember the 'interlude' film on BBC 'London to Brighton in 4 minutes'? This looks much the same - except that the film isn't 'speeded up'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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