TGV Network
TGV Network are motorized oars electric of the SNCF, suited to 320 km/h, brought into service starting from 1992 at the time of the opening of Northern LGV.
Description
These TGV are directly derived from Atlantic TGV, but with a composition reduced to eight intermediate trailers instead of ten. Designation “Network” comes owing to the fact that they were conceived to circulate on various LGV opened with circulation in France. The TGV Network exist in version bicourant and tricourant.
These oars are tight with the waves of pressure, contrary to the Atlantic TGV.
Oars bicourant
These oars are equipped to circulate under 1500 V continuous and 25 Kv 50 alternative Hz, i.e. on all the French electrified lines.
They can circulate in multiple units (2 oars) with the oars tricourant, but also with Duplex TGV, and more recently, with TGV POS.
The restoration launched in 2005 with the claw of the dressmaker Christian Lacroix carries the totality of the oars intended to circulate on the interior network within the framework of the TGV Is.
19 oars bi-courant one considering their sections coupled with the new motor coaches TGV POS, their motor coaches being used for the news oars Duplex).
Oars tricourant
Like the oars bicourant, they are equipped for the continuous 1500 V and the 25 Kv 50 alternative Hz; they can moreover circulate under 3000 V continuous, tension used in particular in Belgium and Italy.
Ten oars are dedicated to the service Thalys and are named TGV PBA.
Service
Oars bicourant
Since their startup in 1992 - 1993, they circulate on Northern LGV on the relations Paris - Northern of France (Lille, Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Valencian…) and on many relations “province - province” between South-east, North and the Atlantic.At the time of their restoration “Lacroix”, they are transferred gradually on the relations Paris - Luxembourg in June 2006, then on Paris - Strasbourg in August in prelude to the TGV Is. From the June 9th 2007, they ensure the trains of the interior service of the TGV Is.
19 sections bi-courant form from now on 19 oars TGV POS.
The bi-courant quota loses in fact only 16 oars, since it receives 3 ex sections tri-courant in compensation. 16 pairs of motor coaches form from now on Duplex oars TGV Network
The totality of the quota remaining (33 oars) is affected with the TGV Is.
Oars tricourant
They are classified in three categories according to their use:- oars 4501 to 6 are assigned to the service Artésia between Paris, Turin and Milan,
- oars 4510 to 4529, plus the 4531 ex-Thalys is used for the Intersecteurs service towards Belgium (TGV since Nice, Marseilles, Montpellier, Bordeaux towards Brussels (oar 4530 formed also part of this group before becoming Iris 320),
- oars 4532 to 4540 are called PBA and assigned to the service Thalys.
Particular oars
- oar 502, victim of an accident on a level crossing with Bierne (59): an half-oar was erased the 01/08/ 98; the other half-oar is useful of reserve or in particular occasions: exposure of the motor coach (made up rows about it 531) in 2003 for the Capital operation Train on the Fields-Élysées to Paris, demonstrator AGV, oar of presentation restoration Lacroix
- oar 531 established a record of endurance at high-speed: the May 26th 2001, the distance from 1 067,2 km between Calais and Marseilles was covered in 3 hours and 29 minutes, at the mean velocity of 306,37 km/h in precondition to the opening of LGV the Mediterranean
- oar 4530 was bought by the activity “Infra” with “Broad outlines” and transform for the inspections on the lines at French and Belgian high speed. It is in service since 2006 under the name of Iris 320
See too
Related articles
- Material engine of the SNCF
- Thalys
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