Alstom TGV Sud-Est SNCF Archives - Railcolor News https://railcolornews.com/category/alstom/alstom-avelia/alstom-tgv-sud-est-sncf/ New trains made in Europe Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:55:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://railcolornews.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-logos2021-favicon-news-1-32x32.png Alstom TGV Sud-Est SNCF Archives - Railcolor News https://railcolornews.com/category/alstom/alstom-avelia/alstom-tgv-sud-est-sncf/ 32 32 [design] Jacques Cooper, the man who designed the TGV, has passed away https://railcolornews.com/2024/04/19/design-jacques-cooper-the-man-who-designed-the-tgv-has-passed-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=design-jacques-cooper-the-man-who-designed-the-tgv-has-passed-away Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:04:02 +0000 https://railcolornews.com/?p=128833 [design] Jacques Cooper, the man who designed the TGV, has passed away

Jacques Cooper, designer of the original French TGV, has sadly passed away at 93 years old. We pay a small tribute to his work and his legacy:

In the 1970s, Alstom put all its effort into inventing a completely new, innovative and, above all, fast train.

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]]> [FR / Expert] In the picture: TGV 16 – the speed devil of the eighties https://railcolornews.com/2021/04/28/fr-in-the-picture-tgv-16-the-speed-devil-of-the-eighties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fr-in-the-picture-tgv-16-the-speed-devil-of-the-eighties Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:56:11 +0000 https://railcolornews.com/?p=67453 [FR / Expert] In the picture: TGV 16 – the speed devil of the eighties

The French railways set several high-speed records with their TGV trains. On 26.02.1981, unit no. 16 reached 380,7 km/h.

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