The Sud-Est fleet was built between 1978 and 1988 and operated the first TGV service, from Paris to Lyon in 1981. There were 107 passenger sets, of which nine are tri-current (including 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC for use in Switzerland) and the rest bi-current.

On 27 September 1981, to great fanfare, the first TGV with paying passengers left Paris, after the inauguration by then French president François Mitterrand five days earlier.

On September 27, 1981, a significant milestone in rail travel was achieved when the first TGV train embarked on its maiden journey from Paris to Lyon. This inaugural trip, covering approximately 300 kilometers (186 miles) in just over two hours, was a demonstration of the technological prowess and engineering excellence that the TGV represented.

2024年9月9日 · TGV has been innovating and setting records since the first high-speed line was inaugurated in 1981. Discover the history of this iconic train, from 1966 and Project C03, which envisioned the future of high-speed rail, to the recent TGV INOUI 2025 trials.

The first production trainset, number 03, was delivered on 25 April 1980. Delivery of an order for 87 TGV trainsets was well underway in 1981, when trainset 16 was used for a very publicized world record run, code-named operation TGV 100 (for a …

2015年3月4日 · On the 26th September 1981 the first Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) in commercial high speed service, left the Gare du Lyon in Paris, for Lyon. Nobody could have imagined that 30 years later nearly 2 billion passengers would have been carried over the high speed network, now totalling almost 2000 kilometres.

2021年9月17日 · France is today celebrating the 40th anniversary of the launch of its high speed trains à grande vitesse (TGV). On September 22, 1981, the first TGV was inaugurated at Paris’s Gare de Lyon, where President Emmanuel Macron will return today with ministers to unveil the “TGV of the future,” the TGV M.

2024年8月23日 · The first stretch of the first high-speed line between Paris and Lyon, with its iconic orange TGVs, is inaugurated in 1981. It’s the first cog in what will become a vast TGV network, and is followed by high-speed lines to the Atlantic coast (1989), Lille (1993), London (1994), Brussels (1996), Marseille (2001), Strasbourg (2007), and Bordeaux ...

Development of the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) started back in the late 60s when fuel was abundant and the original approach was based on the idea of gas turbines driving alternators to generate electricity to power the traction motors on most axles of the train.

2024年10月31日 · Le 25 octobre 1971 est sortie de l’usine d’Alstom de Belfort la première rame de TGV, le prototype TGV 001, 10 ans avant l’inauguration de la première ligne à grande vitesse, le 22 septembre 1981, par le président de la République François Mitterrand.