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    The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Est européenne (East European High Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Est, is a French high-speed rail line that connects...
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    The LGV Interconnexion Est is a French high-speed rail line that connects the LGV Nord, LGV Est, LGV Sud-Est and LGV Atlantique through suburbs of Paris...
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    The LGV Sud-Est (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse Sud-Est; English: South East high-speed line) is a French high-speed rail line which connects the Paris...
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    being constructed or planned. The first French high-speed railway, the LGV Sud-Est, linking the suburbs of Paris and Lyon, opened in 1981 and was at that...
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    TGV (section On LGVs)
    Following the inaugural service between Paris and Lyon in 1981 on the LGV Sud-Est (LGV for Ligne à Grande Vitesse; "high-speed line"), the network, centered...
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    high-speed rail lines. It was originally ordered by the SNCF for use on the LGV Est, which was put into service in 2007. POS is an abbreviation of...
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  • rail lines: LGV Atlantique LGV Est LGV Interconnexion Est LGV Nord LGV Méditerranée LGV Picardie LGV Rhône-Alpes LGV Rhin-Rhône LGV Sud-Est LGV Sud Europe...
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    Chartres. TGVs coming from the north or southeast of France via the LGV Interconnexion Est join the line at Massy. After the new Massy TGV station, the line...
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    Eckwersheim derailment (category 21st century in Grand Est)
    France, while performing commissioning trials on the second phase of the LGV Est high-speed rail line, which was scheduled to open for commercial service...
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    metres per second, was a series of high-speed trials carried out on the LGV Est. The V150 was a specially configured TGV high-speed train (weighing only...
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    rail line situated in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region which extends the LGV Sud-Est southwards. Opened to service in 1994, the line bypasses the built-up...
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    Lorraine TGV station (category Grand Est railway station stubs)
    Lorraine TGV) is a railway station located in Louvigny, France, on the LGV Est, a high-speed rail line running from Paris to Strasbourg. Opened in 2007...
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    the north (Belgium, the Channel Tunnel) and the south (via the LGV Interconnexion Est) have reduced journey times to Great Britain and Benelux and for...
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    Champagne-Ardenne TGV station (category Grand Est railway station stubs)
    Bezannes, France that opened in 2007 along with the first phase of the LGV Est, a high-speed rail line running from Paris to Strasbourg. It is situated...
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    shortly before the opening of the LGV Sud-Est and ended with a speed record of 380 km/h (236 mph) set by TGV Sud-Est trainset number 16. Operations TGV...
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    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 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph). List of high speed...
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    runs between Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and France. On the French LGV Est, some trains reach a regular top speed of 320 km/h (200 mph). The 17 class...
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    LGV Est France SNCF TGV POS Set No. 4402 Multi AC Tuned Set formed of 5 cars. Current world record on steel rails. 568 km/h (353 mph) 2007-04-01 LGV Est...
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    form TGV POS sets by using new TGV POS power cars for services on the LGV Est to Germany and Switzerland. The 38 Réseau power cars were slightly modified...
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    organized the symbolic delivery of the first train on 30 May 2011 on the LGV Est. The 2007 contract included an option for 40 additional trains. SNCF exercised...
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    over the LGV Est to Paris Est. One train pair per day starts or ends in Munich. The line 84 connects Frankfurt with Marseille over the LGV Rhin-Rhône...
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    double-decker coaches. Later high-speed rail lines, such as the LGV Atlantique, the LGV Est, and most high-speed lines in France, were designed as feeder...
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    Strasbourg Airport (category Airports in Grand Est)
    subsidies from the airport. After the opening of the first phase of the new LGV Est high-speed rail line from Paris to Strasbourg, there was a significant...
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    (87 mi) have been built The Western branch, crossing Dijon, joining the LGV Sud-Est near Montbard and making the line a connection between Dijon and Paris...
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    Gare de l'Est (redirect from Réseau Est)
    the departure of these soldiers for the Western front. The SNCF started LGV Est Européenne services from the Gare de l'Est on 10 June 2007, with TGV and...
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    surrounding countries: Belgium, France, and Germany. Since June 2007, the LGV Est connects the station to the French TGV network. The station is located...
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    by the LGV Est, since 2007, and the LGV Rhin-Rhône, since 2011. Frankfurt - Strasbourg - Marseille Munich - Stuttgart - Strasbourg - Paris-Est Colmar...
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    design was further refined into the third generation Euroduplex. The LGV Sud-Est from Paris to Lyon is the busiest high-speed line in France.[citation...
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    Saverne Tunnel (category Transport in Grand Est)
    5 mi), high-speed rail tunnel in western Bas-Rhin, France. It carries the LGV Est line of France's TGV high-speed rail network through the narrowest part...
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    High Speed 1 (redirect from LGV Londres)
    this was higher than other projects in many other countries. The French LGV Est, a line built largely through near-flat fields (save for the Saverne Tunnel)...
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