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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TGV Duplex Carmillon InOui 207 24-10-2020: Florianol45· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Gare du Vert de Maisons DSC 1168 (49644441936): Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. SNCF TGV inOui Reseau Duplex at Paris Gare de Lyon: Superalbs· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. TGV Duplex Carmillon rénové SNCF Voyageurs à quai en gare de Grenoble à la voie A (3): Remontees· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Vue en plongée du départ du TGV POS-Duplex 725 de la voie 3 de la gare de Valence TGV: Remontees· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The TGV Duplex is a French high-speed train of the TGV family, manufactured by Alstom, and operated by the French national railway company SNCF. They were the first TGV trainsets to use bi-level passenger carriages with a seating capacity of 508 passengers, increasing capacity on busy high-speed lines. While the TGV Duplex started as a small component of the TGV fleet, it has become one of the system's workhorses. A total of 160 Duplex trainsets were built: the original order of 89 first constructed in 1995, an additional 19 Réseau Duplex trainsets created as an extension of the TGV POS project in 2006, and 52 second-generation Dasye trainsets were first delivered in 2007 with revised traction motors and safety systems.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- 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.
- 9.3 MW is about 109 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 63 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 200 m long: about 44 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 510: 10 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 31 years.
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1995
- in service from
- 1995
- status
- in service
- number built
- 160
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Alstom
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 320 km/h
- power
- 9.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3
- formation
- 2 power cars + 8 passenger cars
- length
- 200 m
- weight
- 380 t
- capacity
- 510 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q928892, Wikipedia: TGV Duplex (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.