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Trains à Grande Vitesse,
with a top service speed of 300km/h (186mph) enabled the
French to overtake the Japanese as world leaders in high-speed
rail travel. Here, TGV367 departs from Rennes on the TGV Atlantique
route, with the 14.20 Paris (Montparnasse) - Quimper service,
on 8 March 1994. |
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On the metre-gauge Chemins de
Fer de la Provence, X302 pauses at Barrême with the
10.40 Digne - Nice on 23 May 1993 |
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CC14143 heads a northbound coal
train through Thionville on 30 November 1994. These locomotives,
which were introduced in 1954, have now been withdrawn from service
with SNCF. |
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BB67533 at Capdenac (Lot) with
the 10.16 Rodez - Paris on 19 October 1997. |
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