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Watch report / A quick look at the speed of a TGV train / France & World

/ 380 km/h. The first TGV train manufactured by Alstom lost no time in proving its worth. On 26 Feb. 1981 it beat the record set in 1955 by an SNCF electric train by reaching a speed of almost 400 km/h.

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