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Re: A very fast TGV
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:25:38 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Philippe Label wrote:
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To go further on that discussion, the commercial speed of present TGV is 280
km/h,...
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it seems to me that it’s 300, at least for the “Duplex” version. This
source talk about 300 also for
“Atlantique” and “Réseau” versions.
Concerning the number of trailers, TGVs are mainly 8 cars configuration (about
200m lenght), and this allow a 400m (about 1/4 mile) train formation : 1 engine
+ 8 trailers + 1 engine +1 engine + 8 trailers + 1 engine) which are very common
between Lyons and Paris where the stations are long enough.
http://brickwiki.zapto.org/index.php/Image:Tgvd.JPG
TGV “Atlantique”, as David has underlined, is an uncommon 10 trailers
configuration for a total of 238meters length and the “Eurostar” (and the Korean
KTX) that goes thru the chunnel between Paris and London is a 1+18+1
configuration (394meters)
For english speakers, the best ressource concerning French TGVs :
TGV (english)
Concerning the number of passenger, the higher figure is just below 1000
people....just try to put 1000 minifig in a LEGO model :D
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Philippe “frogleap” Label, FreeLUG member (too) :)
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Didier Enjary
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: A very fast TGV
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| Hello, I would like to comment a bit on the speed calculation for the TGV. BTW a very impressive TGV release by Xavier Viallefont. In fact we should apply the scale factor to estimate the speed of Lego trains and compare to the "real world". To ease (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains)
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