The TGV (, meaning high-speed train ) is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator.

SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network.

SNCF operates almost all of France's railway system, including the TGV ( Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning " High-Speed Train "), In the 1970s, SNCF began the TGV high-speed train program with the intention of creating the world's fastest railway network.

Today, SNCF operates 1, 850 km ( about 1, 150 miles ) of designated high-speed track that accommodate more than 800 high-speed trains per day.

SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration ’ s main high-speed rail line.

On behalf of the Government of Taiwan, SNCF managed the high-speed rail Command Control Centre.

SNCF advised Korean Railroad on the electrification of track between Daegu and Busan and on linking existing conventional track to the new high-speed line.

SNCF also assisted in selecting and inspecting high-speed rolling stock and trained 400 senior manager, engineers, and executives in a broad range of skills, including signalling, catenaries, track, rolling stock maintenance, HSR operation, safety management, marketing, and passenger information systems.

Until the end of 2009, SNCF have assisted Korea in maintaining its high-speed.

SNCF partnered with the Spanish railroad infrastructure manager in the study, supply, installation, and maintenance of the standard EU rail signaling system along the Madrid-Lleida high-speed rail line.

On the rolling stock side, SNCF maintains 3, 900 locomotives and 500 high-speed trains.

This change of language is linked to the potentially lucrative market for high-speed rail contracts across the United States of America, since SNCF has been criticized in the US for failing to apologize for its involvement.

* SNCF Voyages is responsible for long distance and high-speed passenger services.

In 1998 SNCF bowed to political pressure ( the tilt-train was a credible threat to the TGV dedicated high-speed line network ) and put in service an experimental TGV pendulaire.

* SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

SNCF runs double-deck TGV cars on heavily used high-speed services, such as on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille line.

A scheme exists for a high-speed rail with an X-type layout and links to the SNCF network in Hendaia ( NE ), Vitoria ( SE ), Bilbao ( W ) and Pamplona ( S ) ( works due finished by 2016 ).

The TGV Atlantique ( TGV-A ) is a class of high-speed trains used in France by SNCF ; they were built by Alstom between 1988 and 1992, and were the second generation of TGV trains, following on from the TGV Sud-Est.

The Gare de Bayonne is on the high-speed TGV line between Paris and Hendaye for connections with Spain.

Two high-speed TGV trains at Gare de l ' Est | Paris-Gare de l ' Est

TGV Network: • red and blue: high-speed lines • black: normal lines used by TGVs • dotted lines: planned for 2009

The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

The arrival of the TGV high-speed trains shortened the trip from Paris to Marseille to less than four hours.

In 1993, a high-speed TGV train line was opened, connecting Paris with Lille in one hour.

The world speed record for conventional high-speed rail is held by the V150, a specially configured and heavily-modified version of Alstom's TGV which clocked on a test run.

The Paris-La Rochelle high-speed train ( TGV ) trip takes just 3 hours, and then taxis or buses can be taken to the island.

However, on July 1, 2011 in order to save energy and reduce operating costs the maximum speed of Chinese high-speed trains was reduced to 300 km / h, and the average speed of the fastest trains on the Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway was reduced to, slower than the TGV.

Figueres has been connected since December 2010 to the high-speed rail network with the start of services connecting Figueres to Perpignan via LGV, allowing direct TGV services to Paris.

Thalys uses two models of trains, both of which are part of the TGV ( train à grande vitesse ) family of high-speed trains built by Alstom in France.

His tenure as President was marked by a more liberal attitude on social issues – such as divorce, contraception, and abortion – and attempts to modernize the country and the office of the presidency, notably launching such far-reaching infrastructure projects as the high-speed TGV train and the turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source.

* TGV Duplex, a French high-speed train of the TGV family featuring bi-level carriages

The high-speed train station ( TGV ) is 20 km from the city.

The Gare de Dijon-Ville is the main railway station, providing connection in one hour and 40 minutes by the TGV high-speed train ( LGV Sud-Est ) to Paris-Gare de Lyon.

In addition, Seoul and Busan are linked by a high-speed train line known as KTX, which was built using French TGV technology.

Inauguration ceremony of the EUROTEM factory in Adapazarı, which will produce the next generation of high-speed train sets for the High-speed rail in Turkey | Turkish high-speed railway network.

The Blue Gene / P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory | Argonne National Lab runs over 250, 000 processors using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 72 racks / cabinets connected by a high-speed optical network

A high-speed toll booth on Florida State Road 417 | SR 417 near Orlando, Florida, United States

Two coupled InterCityExpress | ICE 3 on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line near Montabaur

A rider on a Yamaha Motor Corporation | Yamaha Waverunner XL performing a high-speed turn.

HSV-1 Joint Venture | HSV-1 Joint Venture, a large, experimental, high-speed military catamaran.

The LNER Class A4 Streamliner | streamlined express trains of the 1930s offered a high-speed alternative to road transport

File: Parisian high-speed walkway. jpg | The new walkway during its experimentation phase

The circuit features several high-speed chicanes with prominent kerbs, such as the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari | Imola chicane.

Milan – Bologna high-speed railway runs mostly parallel to the Autostrada del Sole | Milan-Naples highway

The version ETR 500 Y1 achieved 355 km / h on the Milan – Bologna high-speed railway line | Milan – Bologna high-speed line on 1 March 2008.

HSC Condor Rapide | SpeedOne-a high-speed wave piercing catamaran at Dover Eastern Docks

A V250 ( train ) | V250 high-speed train prototype in the colors of Fyra

The cant in a curve of the Nuremberg-Munich high-speed rail line | Nuremberg – Ingolstadt line

File: Schutzweiche. jpg | A trap road with buffer stops at the railway station of Allersberg, on the Nuremberg-Munich high-speed rail line

101 029 in front of a RegionalExpress | regional train on Nuremberg-Munich high-speed rail line | Nuremberg – Ingolstadt high-speed rail line.