Tuesday 3 April 2007: today Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), the French national railways, in conjunction with Alstom, set a new speed record of 574.8km/h on specially prepared track east of Paris. It beat the 515.3km/r achieved by a TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) in 1990. Prior t
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