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V150: 574·8 km/h eclipses the 1990 world record

By and Murray Hughes2007-05-01T18:43:00

Supremely confident engineers from SNCF, RFF and Alstom pushed railway technology past known limits with a dramatic dash on April 3 that shattered the previous world speed record for passenger-carrying trains. Murray Hughes reports from France

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