It's easy, it's written above ! One of the six tri current TGV dedicated to Italy
From Bruxelles during ski vacation only, the Thalys goes to the mountains in Bourg Saint Maurice. This quadri current HST can run under french DC and AC wire, belgian DC and AC wire, dutch DC wire... (more)
The new Carmillon paint scheme applied on this more than 30 years old South East TGV High Speed Train leaving Paris
High speed train coming from Zurich (Switzerland) and go to Paris Gare De Lyon end station. The white antenna on the roof of the third passenger car is a satellite Internet access, the Internet ne... (more)
TGV Lyria Paris Gare de Lyon - Milan.
Double traction of TGV's at Ligne de la Maurienne.
Double traction of TGV's PBKA from Brussels and Amsterdam to Bourg Saint Maurice.
One of the numerous TGV´s consist passing through the Tarentaise Line, heading to Bourg Saint Maurice.
Here both generation of high speed train, left can goes to Switzerland and Germany with the new high speed Rhin-Rhone line, and right double deck goes to south of France. Left is A POS trainset (... (more)
TGV Paris-Toulouse
A Metz to Nice TGV ; Sony A900
High speed trainset running at ~270 Km/h (~168 Mph). This trainset assume the travel from Paris to Milano (Italy).
Front view of a high speed trainset named "duplex" running at ~270 Km/h (~168 Mph). You can see the heat from the motors ventilation due to acceleration phase up to run at 300 Km/h.
New-built doble-deck "TGV Duplex" cars wait to be coupled together to form a new trainset at Alstom's La Rochelle plant.
With Pyrenees snow covered tops in the background, the Tarbes to Paris HST TGV skirts the Pau River. All TGV Atlantique HST 300 to 405 series are now renovated with the Christian Lacroix fashion d... (more)
High spped essays of TGV (350km/hour) on the new high speed rail road Rhin-Rhône. The Duplex Dasye 746 was decorated for the occasion.
In 2011, for 30 years of high speed in France, the SNCF(FRENCH NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY) decorated one of his TGV. It's PSE number 65.
During the month of November 2011, SNCF was a partner of the Paris Photo event. This year theme was Africa. In Paris Gare du Nord, a giant slideshow was done over the Thalys and TGV tracks, allowi... (more)
tgv going to Dunkerque at Noordpeene, in ch'ti country.
The Haut-Bugey line is part of the new TGV connection between Geneva and Paris, which was put into service in December 2010 and cut the travel time by 20 minutes. The line was originally opened in... (more)
View from this low angle, the TGV PSE #91 looks very impressive. The TGV PSE used to run between Paris and Lyon. They never came to Mulhouse on normal duty. This TGV has been named after the city ... (more)
TGV 8511 Paris-Toulouse
The TGV 9207 coming from Paris is rushing through the station of Saint Louis towards Basel. Its final destination is Zurich.
This trainset have the front coupling doors opened, in this case a speed limit is necessary and it is not possible to run at 300 km/h.
Spare locomotive on the front of this High speed trainset, The first machine is a "TGV Reseau" engine and the second machine is "TGV Duplex" engine. the both generations are compatible in the same... (more)
The 27th of September 1981, the first TGV line opened to the public with its first line going from Paris to Lyon and back, making the two cities 425 kilometers (265 miles) apart only at a mere 2 h... (more)
TGV from Strasbourg to Paris-Est
TGV 8511 Paris-Toulouse au lieu dit "les 100 Arches"
High speed train to Paris Gare De Lyon taken with high focal lens at downlighting.
High speed train From Paris Gare De Lyon running to Geneva in switzerland at downlighting.
High speed train running at ~250 Km/h at downlighting
Power and speed on earth, silence and slowness in the sky !
The TGV Duplex rushes up the steep ramp at a speed of approximativ 175 kph / 110 mph. In the background the track is visible, about 48 seconds before it passed there. Quite impressiv the cababilit... (more)
TGV Duplex No. 615 rushes south to Perpignan.
A TGV heads east towards Montbard and Paris near Mont Auxois which is behind and to the right of the photographer. Mont Auxois is now accepted as the location of the Gallic leader Vercingetorix's ... (more)
High speed train run in downlighting.
The special high speed train in celebratory livery for 30 th birthday of first commercial high speed train. This livery represent the new orientation of colors used for future locomotive livery.
An westbound TGV passes the junction at Buffon near Montbard shortly before sunset. I went back to this location 3 evenings running to try and get a perfect glint shot. This was the nearest I got,... (more)
Cab view of a testing run at 353,5 Km/h (~220 mph, see the speed tachymeter on the left corner of front window) in this Dasye TGV trainset on the new high speed line named "LGV Rhin Rhone". This n... (more)
Cab view of a Dasye TGV 746 trainset before leaving new Besançon TGV station for a test run at up to 359 km/h (~223 mph) on the new high speed line named "LGV Rhin Rhone". This line is not opened... (more)
A TGV set pases through fields of wheat made golden by the setting sun. The village of Buffon is in the background. The line of trees in the middle distance marks the course of the Burgundy canal ... (more)