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« on: June 04, 2011, 08:45:38 »
A French ^Train Grande Vitesse^ in the form of SNCF▸ (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways) test train IRIS 320 became the first of its class to run in Britain on the night of May 4/5.
http://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/news/tgv-in-secret-visit-to-uk
St Pancras/Marseille would be nice.
 Can anyone put any meat on this story.
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« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2011, 20:07:03 »
St Pancras - Marseille was the commercial objective behind the Avignon service - there just wasn't time for an out and back same day service, and there was not the perceived demand or economic justification for either a two day or a day/night rotation. One day, maybe.
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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 08:14:58 »
Not so radicle as the ICE 3 plus it's not a pasenger train.

After all the TGV▸ (Train a Grande Vitesse) has exactly the same rows of seats facing the center of the coach, 2 tables per standard coach as in a Eurostar which is it's little brother.
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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 08:37:49 »
I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested, HS1▸ (High Speed line 1 - St Pancras to Channel Tunnel) was built as modern Continental railway not a British Victorian one.  The soon we have proper intercity train services into Europe the better this will then meet the 1980's aspirations of BR▸ (British Rail(ways)) & SNCF▸ (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways)/B in the TML project.   
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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 16:27:24 »
Wouldn't take much to extend the Lille Europe terminating trains up to St. Pancras. That would open up one heck of a lot direct journey possibilities to France. Just the immingration issues to sort out....
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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2011, 04:17:28 »
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Join the Schengen Area, anyone...?

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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2011, 11:37:28 »
Quote from: Electric train on June 05, 2011, 08:37:49
I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested...

The train wasn't being tested.  It was a TGV▸ (Train a Grande Vitesse) test train being used for HS1▸ (High Speed line 1 - St Pancras to Channel Tunnel) track monitoring and recording.  Like NR» (Network Rail - home page)'s NMT HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) in other words.

People are reading far too much into this I think...

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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2011, 13:20:52 »
Quote from: paul7755 on June 06, 2011, 11:37:28
Quote from: Electric train on June 05, 2011, 08:37:49
I'm just surprised it's taken so long for these euro trains to be tested...

The train wasn't being tested.  It was a TGV▸ (Train a Grande Vitesse) test train being used for HS1▸ (High Speed line 1 - St Pancras to Channel Tunnel) track monitoring and recording.  Like NR» (Network Rail - home page)'s NMT HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) in other words.

People are reading far too much into this I think...

Paul
Explains why it was pulled through the tunnel by ET and there was no blaze of publicity
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