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Posted by AlM on Wed May 18 10:44:54 2022, in response to Rail Services via Paris?, posted by New Flyer #857 on Wed May 18 08:15:39 2022. Sounds very unlikely.1. Like London, Paris has different stub-end stations. 2. The French consider Paris to be the center of the universe. There used to be Le Train Bleu, which went from London to the Riviera. Last read about it in a book from the 1930s. There was a specific mention of how slow the trip around Le Ceinture (the railroad belt around Paris) was. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 10:53:37 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by AlM on Wed May 18 10:44:54 2022. Woah, back it up, back it up. Beep, beep, beep.How did the train cross the English Channel? |
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Posted by Joe on Wed May 18 12:57:42 2022, in response to Rail Services via Paris?, posted by New Flyer #857 on Wed May 18 08:15:39 2022. @NewFlyerA beginning of a reply: I looked for service from Brussels to Montpellier, Lyon, or Dijon. It seems (big maybe) that the through TGV's stop near Charles de Gaulle Airport. There are many daily trips. A Long Island friend rode TGV from Dijon to Gare Montparnasse. He felt the arrival in Paris was slow as through Woodside. |
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Posted by AlM on Wed May 18 13:35:16 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 10:53:37 2022. Ferry.I did that (sort of) in 1070. Train from London to the dock in Dover. On my train, sleeper cars were rolled onto the track-equipped ferry. (I didn't book a sleeper so I had to get out of the train and walk onto the boat.) Then in Calais the cars were rolled onto tracks of the French railroad network and a new engine and French non-sleeper passenger cars attached. |
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Posted by Joe on Wed May 18 13:53:47 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by AlM on Wed May 18 13:35:16 2022. At CDG the Navette (ferry) was a shuttle bus that neglected to meet our arrival. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 15:19:07 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by AlM on Wed May 18 13:35:16 2022. Only four years after the Normans conquered England and they were already running an operation like that. |
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Posted by AlM on Wed May 18 15:30:51 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 15:19:07 2022. Yep!I wonder if anyone ever considered that the 0 key really ought to have been placed to the left of the 1 key. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 15:43:26 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by AlM on Wed May 18 15:30:51 2022. Old typewriters didn’t even have a 1 key. Also, first gen typewriters didn’t have a 0 either. |
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Posted by AlM on Wed May 18 17:19:51 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 18 15:43:26 2022. Old typewriters didn’t even have a 1 key. Ha. I'd forgotten. I've seen typewriters without 1 keys, long ago. |
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Posted by Nasadowsk on Wed May 18 18:25:29 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by Joe on Wed May 18 12:57:42 2022. The last few miles are on the 1.5kv system. The TGVs are dogs on that system. |
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Posted by zac on Thu May 19 06:03:43 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by Nasadowsk on Wed May 18 18:25:29 2022. I rode the TGV from Bordeaux to Paris a few years ago and it is very slow once in the Environs of both stations. |
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[Photo]: TGV |
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Posted by zac on Thu May 19 11:07:34 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by zac on Thu May 19 06:03:43 2022.  At Bordeaux station. Took that train to Paris. The max speed I recorded was 200mph or 318kph. The train went into Montparnasse station and we stayed nearby and had dinner at one of Paris' most iconic restaurants, La Rotonde. We took the metro/RER the next day to CDG and that train was painfully slow. When I stayed in Paris in a different area near L'Arc de Triomphe the hotel concierge recommended the airport bus up the street over the metro. It cost more but it was really quick. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Thu May 19 12:53:58 2022, in response to [Photo]: TGV, posted by zac on Thu May 19 11:07:34 2022. I shudder as I view it and the thought of a giant BOA or Anaconda is slithering in and searching for prey.Goose bumps! |
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Posted by Italianstallion on Thu May 19 13:56:09 2022, in response to Re: Rail Services via Paris?, posted by AlM on Wed May 18 17:19:51 2022. Yep. You used the lower case L. |
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Re: [Photo]: TGV |
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Posted by zac on Thu May 19 15:57:54 2022, in response to Re: [Photo]: TGV, posted by Avid Reader on Thu May 19 12:53:58 2022.  The actual speed recording taken with my cycling app on that trip! OrangeF is the French cell service  An even faster speed recording, this one in Shanghai on the Maglev. I couldn't tell you what cell service that is! Note that in neither case could the map keep up with the speed of the train. |
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