TGV mit 574.8km/h

Wow. Mehr als Mach 0.5 — auf Schienen!

"At 574.8km/h, it was impossible to focus on anything within 1.5km of the train. [...] We were travelling twice as fast as a passenger jet on the point of take-off, but there were no seatbelts. At that speed, they wouldn’t have saved us anyway. As the only British journalist on board, I was determined not to show how frightened I was. [...]

But then they have absolute faith in the safety of their high speed lines, with no passenger fatalities in 26 years of operation. I have reported on six crashes which have killed 60 people on Britain’s so-called fast lines in just the past decade and none of the trains was going faster than 200km/h. [...]

A camera on the roof showed white flashes on the overhead powerlines, from which we were drawing 19.6 megawatts, more power than all the cars which start a grand prix race."