TGV - Is it fast?
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Ben might be more of an expert on this issue, but 300 mph (504 kmh) is (or maybe was) the world rail record achieved by TGV. The operating speed is between 320 and 350 kmh. Any TGV has at least 200 k=m of such a track. the Paris-Lyon is entirely fast track (500 km), so is Paris-Tours or Paris-Lille (200 km).
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Paris-Avignon is about 560 miles (a little over 900 km) and it takes 4 hrs. The ride is so smooth, I was disappointed in any sense of speed. Like riding in a jetplane doesn't seem fast - - nothing like driving 110 mph.
The one and only time I even perceived the speed was when you pass another TGV going the other direction - - then it really does seem like whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh - - they're gone!
The one and only time I even perceived the speed was when you pass another TGV going the other direction - - then it really does seem like whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh - - they're gone!
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The TGV and its sister services in Europe are testimony to the first rate engineering and the scale of investment being made by governments and privatized rail industry. The smoothness and silence DO make the speed deceptive, but try standing outside by the side of the right of way when a TGV (I think is was the Lyon-Paris train) goes by at flank speed. SSSSSSscary.