The SNCF turned to Durisotti, one of France’s largest commercial vehicle upfitters, to convert a quartet of Renault Master vans into locomotive lookalikes. Say that five times fast. What spec of van ...

Jacques Cooper, designer of France's first ultra-fast TGV train that shattered world speed records when it came into service in 1981, has died aged 93, his former employer Alstom said on Wednesday.

ON BOARD TRAIN V150, France (Reuters) - A French TGV train broke a world speed record on Tuesday when it hurtled down a newly built track at 574.8 kilometres per hour (357 mph) in the northern ...

This list combines standard-gauge and maglev trains. The trains listed don't include unmanned experiments such as a rocket sled that hit 6,453 mph (1,038 km/h) at Holloman Air Force Base in 2003.

Onboard TGV 531, Somewhere in the Middle of France, May 26 -- With 50 years of rail speed records, France's national railway company SNCF took another step toward becoming the undisputable world ...