TGV

2 June 2010 - I like trains, so I am increasingly impressed with the network of high-speed railways all over Europe. The TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) is the mother of the European high-speed service. It is often forgotten that the TGV was already developed in the 1970s, and the first train went into service in 1981 between Paris and Lyon. The network has now expanded to neighboring countries, including Belgium and Holland through Thalys. For a long time the TGV had the world record as high speed train, which was said in 2007 when 574.8 km/h. was reached. Wow! But the record was broken in 2009 by the new high-speed train between Guangzhou and Wuhan in China.