Right place, right time... Two TGV SE trainsets are crossing at ~260 Kph and have been taken at the perfect timing !
décoration "L'Océane" pour l'inauguration de la nouvelle ligne Tours-Bordeaux
TGV Nice-Paris near Anthéor-Cap-Roux station
TGV IRIS 320 passes the Viaduct Cize-Bolozon during a test run on the Haut-Bugey-line. After reopening in 2010 this improved line allowed TGV trains to shorten their route from Paris to Geneva by... (more)
End of life for these 7 oldest French high speed couple engines which are waiting the death in Sotteville yards. All TGV engines have been coupled and placed head to tail to form a train which can... (more)
Sophie is the oldest French high speed trainset which running in 2016! Now this TGV #02 is running on South-East line and first TGV #01 is running on North line. Both trainsets (nicknamed Patrick ... (more)
A set of double decker at high speed, southbound.
Mozart express train from Paris to Vienna operated until 2007 when it was replaced by TGV on the new opened LGV Est
Train for Paris is entering in La Rochelle station.
The first world record high speed trainset which have reach 380 Kp/H in the 80's is running everyday at 300 Kp/H since 35 years... Great French technology...
Ligne: Paris-Lyon-Turin-Milan
This ECR is composed with tanks, bound from St Nazaire Donges for Poitiers. The speed limit from La Roche sur Yon to La Rochelle is 60 km/h on 120 km long, for all classes, including intercities,... (more)
Weekly holidays Thalys coming back from south of France.
Pendular TGV in tests
Blue low cost high speed train named Ouigo crossing EuroDuplex high speed train at 250 Kph.
A pair of TGV Duplex sets are nose to nose at Gare de Lyon Station. Two sets are normally used on the longer distance, heavier traveled trains.
Early in the morning a TGV Nice - Paris is running along the Mediterranean Sea and the Esterel mountains.
The Paris - Marseille TGV is crossing the "Arc" viaduct on the Mediterranean HST line.
Under a downpour, a TGV going to Paris meets the 4-8-2 "241-P-17" going to Lyon on the Dombes line. Apologies for a picture that is only 50% steam!
The TGV Paris - Nice is crossing the Napoule viaduct along the Mediterranean Sea.
Doubledeck TGV Dasye # 762 and 760 in the "OUIGO" configuration and colors in Nîmes, running as train 6259 from Marne la Vallee TGV to Montpellier Saint Roch.
Two TGV-Duplex Nice - Paris service are crossing the viaduct of Anthéor.
With a length of 273m and a height of 73m the Viaduc de Cize-Bolozon is the most impressive structure of the french Haut-Bugey line. The line between Bellegarde-sur-Valserine and Bourg-en-Bresse... (more)
Oldest (and first) high speed train generation with the new livery applied after the 2012 renovation. This trainset have been delivered on April 7th, 1981 and will probably be retired and scrapped... (more)
The world's faster railway train ! This trainset have run at 574,8 Km/h the April 3, 2007 (see RPN #227277 here www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=227277). After world record, only engines was ... (more)
High speed trains pass in French countryside without disturbing cows !
This high speed train spoted from rear side have a spare engine (Réseaux serie) at rear side witch is not the same as front engine, the rear Duplex engine #234 was damaged by fire August 21, 2015... (more)
Tgv Duplex 270 is leaving Mantes, bound for Marseille from Le Havre
This Intercity Caen-Paris is leaving Mantes, after a stop that allowed clients a connection with Tgv Le Havre-Marseille. This class is the last that carries the famous yellow-red colour scheme. T... (more)
During the 1950s, SNCF investigations into high-speed rail saw some CC 7100 class locomotives specially modified for operation at speeds far higher than their regular service speed. These experime... (more)
Two different High Speed Trains (TGV) wait for departure
High speed trainset close to switch between incab signal and main line signs, this is the end of the high speed line, Lyon city side.
Rare trainset coupling. The white high speed train is a Lyria serie (Multi power/countries) while the double deck train is not going at same location... Maybe both trains will be separate during a... (more)
Rare sight, the storage of a Duplex TGV in the express regio train (TER) depot Lyon Croix Barret, due to a strike of the switchmens in Lyon's area.
This "TGV Réseau" is a multi-power train and can run with 25000 V, 1500 V in France and with 3000 V in Belgium.
TGV Duplex has a double-decker carriage design, carrying over 500 passengers at a time to improve operating efficiency.
Max speed reached!
Pantograph spark show at high speed.
Bad background weather for this double deck Euroduplex high speed train.
Details on the coupling system named Scharf (from Scharfenberg Company) of this new high speed trainset.
The light blue Ouigo low cost high speed train have been coupled with a standard TGV, normally 2 similar Ouigo trainsets are coupled for this trip but may be one of them have an issue unsolved and... (more)
This is the 100th double deck French high speed trainset. The driver say hello with his hand and the train horn !
The Euroduplex TGV #4711 coming from Paris Gare de Lyon is rushing through the Saint-Louis station en route to Zurich. In a few minutes, the train will leave France and enter Switzerland.
EC 91 is crossing with a TGV high speed train set in the Saint-Louis station. The TGV is running between Zurich and Paris, the EC 91 between Brussels and Basel SBB.
The international bound Paris-Barcelona just leaving the Narbonne station on time on the schedule.
One of the most beautiful railway places in France crossed by an Euroduplex TGV Paris-Geneva. It is crossing Cize-Bolozon viaduct over Ain river.
This high speed train has leaving Paris to reach the North of France on North high speed line who has big slopes but the speed of 300 Kp/h is kept, all French TGVs are powerful !
Interior of a retired high speed train build in 80's but scrapped now !
TGV 744, specially equipped for test runs on the new built 2nd section of the high speed line Paris - Strasbourg, derailed on November 14th near Eckwersheim (changeover to the old line Vendenheim ... (more)
TGV 9773 Paris - Geneve is crossing the Cize Bolozon viaduct between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde.
This TGV links Paris, in France, with Lausanne, in Switzerland.
The Evian - Paris TGV is crossing the spectacular Cize Bolozon viaduct which is a road-rail bridge built over the Ain gorge.
Historic shoot ! All postal trainsets are now waiting to be scrapped and have been transferred at the Abérieu yard. The Postal high speed service have stopped on June 27th 2015 and this yellow TG... (more)
TGV 6841 Strasbourg - Montpellier has just accelerated to about 300 km/h on the new high speed line between Belfort and Dijon.
A northbound TGV from Lyon to Paris.
Single deck TGV No.321 passing the church at Pompignan on the bank of the Canal du Midi.
Sunrise on this "La Poste" TGV running from Cavaillon to Paris in Burgondy, on the "South-East" High Speed Ligne
Historic shoot ! Few days before the end of high speed postal service, this postal high speed train is leaving the Charolais depot after a trip with parcels and letters from south of France to go ... (more)
This trainset have the both actual livery ! The spare engine have the old livery and cars and rear engine have the new Carmillon livery, it is a chameleon train...
Two TGV Duplex Perpignan - Paris in the original blue livery and in the new Carmillon colours. The line leads here on a bank through the Mediterranean Sea.
Historic shoot ! This is one of the latest trip of high speed postal services ! This yellow postal TGV SE 953 have assumed the latest trip to Paris Charolais Postal depot. The Postal high speed se... (more)
VELARO, the new TGV for Eurostar is making tests between Paris and Dijon, here approaching Verrey-sous-Salmaise station
