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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TGV Montpellier-Nancy en gare de Beaune (automne 2018): Florian Pépellin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. TGV Réseau 550, Cesson-Sévigné: RAIL P ( RAIL.PHOTOGRAPHY )· CC0
- 3. KTX-I: Subway06· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The SNCF TGV Réseau (lit. 'Network', TGV-R) is a TGV train built by Alstom between 1992 and 1996 for SNCF, the French national railway for use on high-speed TGV services. The Réseau trainsets are based on the earlier TGV Atlantique. The first Réseau sets entered service in 1993.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 33 years ago, in 1993.
- Top speed is 2.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 8 minutes.
- 8.8 MW is about 104 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 64 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 200 m long: about 44 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 377: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 33 years.
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993
- in service from
- 1993
- status
- in service
- number built
- 60
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Eurostar
- top speed
- 320 km/h
- power
- 8.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3, 3 (tri-voltage sets)
- formation
- 2 power cars + 8 passenger cars, including 3 first class, 1 dining and 4 second class cars
- length
- 200 m
- weight
- 383 t
- capacity
- 377 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q928468, Wikipedia: SNCF TGV Réseau (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.