The High-Speed rail and the TGV

The High-Speed rail and the TGV A common issue to all transport development is the need to always go faster. The railway is a very good example. From the very beginning, the developments in the railways were driven by the need to carry goods and passenger at a faster pace than the one available at the time. The Japanese opened the first high speed commercial Line Shinkansen service on 1st of October 1964 with a speed …

…in directly into city centres . There is virtually no checking time, no commuting back and force to airports, and this saves a lot of time. The comfort on board is adequate for business travellers as well as for tourists and it is considered as an environmentally friendly way of travelling (no CO2 emission). On top of all this, it is cheaper and extremely reliable ,very often running virtually to the minutes over journey over 800 Km.