Sentences with phrase «grande vitesse»

After one more day in Bordeaux and a rainy afternoon in Arcachon (a village near a protected beach on the Atlantic seaside), I boarded a TGV («train grande vitesse») last Friday direct to Paris.

TGV: All about the TGV, train a grande vitesse, the high speed trains that you can use to travel in France.

Although 150 miles per hour is more than twice as fast as most people travel on the highway, Acela Express trains can not compete with their European and Japanese cousins: the British / French / Belgian Eurostar, the German ICE train (Inter City Express) and the Japanese Shinkansen routinely reach up to 186 miles per hour, and the French TGV (train grande vitesse) travels at up to 200 miles per hour.

Perhaps the best known is French Railways» TGV (train a grande vitesse), which holds the world speed record of 515 kilometres per hour.