Well, it's for sale you can buy it ;)

for long trip (more than, say, 1000 km) plane is a better choice for sure, but a high speed train is easier to take and cheaper.  When distances between important cities are not too important (like in europe) it's the perfect solution.

I saw that california is interested to buy TGV for a SF- LA railroad.


Buy the way, one thing that made a lot of french (including me) laugh : the TGV logo (returned) looks like a very slow snail :
 

http://www.my-os.net/blog/images/decembre2005/logoTGV.jpg">

lol for the inverted logo :)

Here 's the video of the record :
ht*p://www.record2007.com/site/index_en.php

Impressive ...

Cheers .

Champagne pour tout le monde !


I hope that it will be a good commercial success all around rhe world .Maybe in california soon ?


ps: i am waiting english zealot AdamB(lair) to tell us about the quality and superiority of the british railways .....

Champagne? Nope.
Gewurtztraminer it will be.
I'm told that the TGV development that reached all regions of France was fully state-funded, except for the easterners that got it last (and it won't be in regular service until 2010!) and had to pay for it with a steep increase of their council taxes!

et non shirrush ...you seem not to have correct information of  your country.
TGV est ( east) is to be open officially on june 10th  2007.
http://www.tgvesteuropeen.com/
http://www.tourmag.com/TGV-Est-lancement-le-10-juin-2007_a13984.html

paris/strasbourg in 2h20 for example, instead of 4h.

I like too , gewurtztraminer, a very good white wine from alsace.

h*tp://www.tourmag.com/TGV-Est-lancement-le-10-juin-2007_a13984.html

h*tp://www.tgvesteuropeen.com/

I believe my source about the taxes. Fact is, the East got it last and needed it the most. It would have been wise, IMO, to connect Paris with the Rhine valley, a European aorta, before serving Aquitaine or the Rhone countries. But hey, I'm not even pretending to be objective here: in the meantime, my Alsatian friends and relatives got used to fly...

This said, the work done and the technologies implemented with these LGV's are simply awesome. This is a good example of what the French can do when they roll up their sleeves and stop complaining!

Well, these are good news indeed. I look forward to my 2:20 Strasbourg-Paris trip next July. Personally, I'm not too enthusiastic about Paris airports...

the french gov is now thrifty...less and less public euro.
the TGV was born in 82 to connect paris to lyon, and several years after , the complete fast speed tracks were built to reach marseille , in the same right line , to the south. Lyon and marseille are second and third french cities. that's an explanation.For bordeaux , the same stuff.
TGV has been probably thought within a franco-french idea of development.
maybe , maybe ? that the french were not in a hurry to build a fast track towards the german border strasbourg...subconsciously !

the development of TGV tracks to all europe is on the way. That will be a good competitor to palnes and  better for environment.