New world record for TGV : 574,8 Km/h

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:23 pm

Today in France, our rail company SNCF/ALSTOM beats a new speed record on rail.
An amazing speed has been reach by TGV* (V150) with a top-speed of 574.8 Km/h.

Rendez-vous on this link and click on the circle to watch the event in video :
http://www.record2007.com/site/index_en.php

Previous record (on rail) was TGV, in 1990, with 515.3 Km/h

*TGV: Train à Grande Vitesse = High Speed Train.

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:38 pm

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No time for losers
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And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end
We are the champions
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No time for losers
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Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:34 pm

I just hope this thing never leaves the rails at that speed.

(I am being sincere here. I REALLY do hope that never happens.)

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:56 pm

This is just for a record purpose, the rail will only accept tgv @320 km/h speed, there was some modification to allow this record like the energy (19 000 kwh ! )

mueckerich · Post by **mueckerich** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:36 pm

Respect, thats damn fast.

codemaniac · Post by **codemaniac** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:38 pm

mueckerich wrote: Respect, thats damn fast.

I would say that's insane

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:51 pm

Derek wrote:I just hope this thing never leaves the rails at that speed.

(I am being sincere here. I REALLY do hope that never happens.)

this shouldn't happen because the train is very heavy and a profile well thinked and it is a record that demonstrate the very very big security margin they have.

if we can do 575 km/h without problem (railroad stay not deformed, up cables stay ok, train's ok, sounds not too much...) we can do a 320 km/h (and in some months 340 km/h) without security problems.

and here in france, 300/320 km/h is the standard speed on high speed railroads of our TGV since about 20 years. it's the safer train of the world (no dead in whole period 1980-2007), only one accident without any victim at a 300 km/h speed (true story).

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:55 pm

@ricardo

i know that argentina is interested to buy some TGV and rebuild your railroad network.
i heard that your network is very deprecated.
today, you have about 8 000 km and in the past it was much more, about 40 000 km.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:57 pm

mueckerich wrote: Respect, thats damn fast.

Now, all they need to do is put some wings on it

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:44 pm

Congratulations

, I noticed something about this in my local fish-wrap today, and they mentioned something
about trying to beat a Japanese record today, did they do that? (I think they did?)

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:10 pm

I get emperrased being Norwegian after reading this

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:23 pm

utopiomania wrote:Congratulations , I noticed something about this in my local fish-wrap today, and they mentioned something
about trying to beat a Japanese record today, did they do that? (I think they did?)

Yes, it's speed was 581 kmh but it was not validated because it didn't use conventional rails.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:23 pm

here in Stuttgart we will be connected to the TGV network from june on, it's only 3 1/2 hours to Paris then

So Fred start cooling some beer then we might do a Purebasic meeting in France

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:24 pm

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:55 pm

utopiomania wrote:Congratulations , I noticed something about this in my local fish-wrap today, and they mentioned something
about trying to beat a Japanese record today, did they do that? (I think they did?)

Yes, Japan with the 'Shinkansen' have the world record but not on rail.
'Shinkansen' use the magnetic technic which is very very expansive.

And yes, french engineers wish to beats the Japan record (but on rail this time). They hope to reach the 600 km/h step (372.8 mph) one day.