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Title: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: woody on June 04, 2011, 08:45:38 A French ^Train Grande Vitesse^ in the form of SNCF test train IRIS 320 became the first of its class to run in Britain on the night of May 4/5.
http://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/news/tgv-in-secret-visit-to-uk St Pancras/Marseille would be nice. Can anyone put any meat on this story. Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: rogerpatenall on June 04, 2011, 20:07:03 St Pancras - Marseille was the commercial objective behind the Avignon service - there just wasn't time for an out and back same day service, and there was not the perceived demand or economic justification for either a two day or a day/night rotation. One day, maybe.
Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: eightf48544 on June 05, 2011, 08:14:58 Not so radicle as the ICE 3 plus it's not a pasenger train.
After all the TGV has exactly the same rows of seats facing the center of the coach, 2 tables per standard coach as in a Eurostar which is it's little brother. Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: Electric train on June 05, 2011, 08:37:49 I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested, HS1 was built as modern Continental railway not a British Victorian one. The soon we have proper intercity train services into Europe the better this will then meet the 1980's aspirations of BR & SNCF/B in the TML project.
Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: adc82140 on June 05, 2011, 16:27:24 Wouldn't take much to extend the Lille Europe terminating trains up to St. Pancras. That would open up one heck of a lot direct journey possibilities to France. Just the immingration issues to sort out....
Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: inspector_blakey on June 06, 2011, 04:17:28 <devil's advocate>
Join the Schengen Area, anyone...? </devil's advocate> Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: paul7575 on June 06, 2011, 11:37:28 I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested... The train wasn't being tested. It was a TGV test train being used for HS1 track monitoring and recording. Like NR's NMT HST in other words. People are reading far too much into this I think... Paul Title: Re: TGV IN SECRET VISIT TO UK Post by: Electric train on June 06, 2011, 13:20:52 I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested... The train wasn't being tested. It was a TGV test train being used for HS1 track monitoring and recording. Like NR's NMT HST in other words. People are reading far too much into this I think... Paul This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |