The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

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.

Following the inaugural TGV service between Paris and Lyon in 1981, the TGV network, centred on Paris, has expanded to connect cities across France and in adjacent countries.

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.

The TGV, which connects Tours with Paris in less than an hour, has made the Touraine a place of residence for people who work in the capital but seek a different quality of life.

It has an excellent transport network ( TGV, highways ) and benefits from the proximity to the international airports of Lyon and Geneva.

SNCF's TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on April 3, 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, was able to cover more ground with each rotation and had a stronger 25, 000 hp ( 18, 600 kW ) engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

After nearly 30 years in operation, SNCF ’ s TGV system has never experienced a fatal accident.

The département has two railway stations on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle ( Niort and Saint-Maixent ), with a journey from Niort to Paris taking 2h15.

Since June 2007 it has been connected to the TGV network, reducing travel time to Paris to only three hours ( compared to 5 hours previously ).

The railway station has seven daily TGV trains to Paris, a journey which takes 1 hour 15 minutes.

It also has a railway station, Gare de Saint-Malo, offering direct TGV service to Rennes, Paris and several regional destinations.

It also has a few TGV stations.

Since the introduction of the TGV Atlantique — using Gare Montparnasse — Austerlitz has lost most of its long-distance southwestern services.

Niort has a railway station on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle, Gare de Niort.

There has been recent controversy concerning the new LGV Sud Europe Atlantique ( TGV line ), which is planned to pass inland of Hendaye without stopping in or anywhere near the town itself.

A TGV test train set the record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching on 3 April 2007.

The record for the fastest long distance run was set by a TGV Réseau train travelling from Calais-Frethun to Marseille ( 1067. 2 km, 663 mi ) in 3 hours 29 minutes () for the inauguration of the LGV Méditerranée on 26 May 2001.

* 1990-World speed record for an electric train is set in France by a TGV, reaching a speed of.

The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is, achieved in Japan by Central Japan Railway Company's ( JR Central ) MLX01 superconducting maglev in 2003, faster than the conventional wheel-rail speed record set by the TGV.

It is important to note that the current world record for rail vehicles is held by the TGV V150 set on 15 April 2007 at 574. 8 km / h, and conventional trains may indeed eventually reach into very high-speeds.

In addition he has contributed liner notes to the Throbbing Gristle TGV DVD box set.

The TGV Atlantique's world record was beaten on the 3 April 2007, by a TGV POS set on the LGV Est, which reached a top speed of.

Facing tough competition from French high-speed TGV trains, Air Inter had encouraged its pilots to fly at high speeds at low altitudes, and had not installed ground proximity warning systems on its airliners because such systems generated too many nuisance alarms during high-speed, low-altitude flight.

Although " transposed " literally means " swapped ", many types of TGV involve vessels that are in abnormal positions, while not actually being swapped with each other.

In many cases, TGV is accompanied by other heart defects, the most common type being intracardiac shunts such as atrial septal defect ( ASD ) including patent foramen ovale ( PFO ), ventricular septal defect ( VSD ), and patent ductus arteriosus ( PDA ).

** Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport via TGV to many French cities.

* 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

A French TGV holds the world speed record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached on 3 April 2007.

* 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515. 3 km / h ( 320. 2 mph ).

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.

As of mid 2011, scheduled TGV trains operate at the highest speeds in conventional train service in the world, regularly reaching on the " LGV Est ".

Shinkansen trains now run regularly at speeds up to, placing them alongside the French TGV, Italian TAV, Spanish AVE, and German ICE among the fastest trains in the world.

* 2007-Heavily modified trainset of France's TGV had beaten its original world record when it travelled from Metz-Reims at a speed of.

It takes 1 hour to reach Paris from Le Mans by TGV high speed train.

* September 27 – TGV high speed rail service between Paris and Lyon, France begins.

The Gare de Rennes, opened in 1857, is now two hour and twenty minutes by TGV high speed train from Paris.

The high speed TGV train connects Paris and Nice in less than 6 hours, while Marseille is reached in 2. 5 hours.

Reims is served by two main railway stations: Gare de Reims in the city centre, the hub for regional transport, and the new Gare de Champagne-Ardenne TGV 5 km southwest of the city with high speed rail connections to Paris, Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg.

A TGV service held the record for the fastest scheduled rail journey with a start to stop average speed of,

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.

He for instance reduced from 21 to 18 the age of majority and pushed for the development of the TGV high speed train network and the Minitel, a precursor of the Internet.