TGV speed record 574,8 km/h
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2009
- A hagyományos vasút-technika csúcsa a francia TGV. Speciálisan felkészített vasúti pálya, feszített felsővezeték, megnövelt teljesítményű villamos motorkocsik eredményezték ezt a fantasztikus sebességi világrekordot. A sebességre jellemző, hogy az 574,8 km/óra végsebességgel száguldó szerelvényt egy sugárhajtású kis repülőgéppel követték a filmesek.
Adatok:
Hossz: 106 m
Súly: 265 tonna (tons)
Feszültség: 31.000 V
Áramerősség: 800 A (amps)
Teljesítmény: 25.500 lóerő (horsepower)
Zene: • Angels & Agony - Revel... - Věda a technologie
Imagine you are a pedestrian who looked both ways before crossing but still a train going 500km/h hits you
*with eurobeat music playing in the background
*"I like trains"*
Thats just factorio
disintegrated
I suppose at that speed you probably wouldn't hear it, or feel it. You'd just be "gone"
Play at 2x speed and you can witness how fast 1149.6 km/h is
Lol, amazing 😆😆
it's really fantastic
😆😆
LOL
the incredible thing is it doesn't rollover😳
For those marvelling at the straightness of the track:
What makes this even more mind-blowing is that this track sits on gravel ballast, and track which sits on ballast tends to be less smooth than ballastless slab track, like the sort you find in Japan or Germany. This is the real mind-fuck in my opinion.
As we say, no one copies the French and the French copy no one.
@@fl539 "ewwww, fr*nch"
@@suntzu1409where did that joke come from???
@@Thepissheadman
Deepest darkest depths of the internet
Its like that to avoid unwanted vibrations that can cause issues, this way the vibrations are lost in the ballast and it allows for the train to go faster
What’s even more impressive is that the previous TGV record reached 515.3 km/h in 1990!!!
😮
You know you're making history when the chase vehicle is a jet.
and the jet is slower than the train
@@therosijedha Correct - The best type of jet to use in cases like this would be a military training jet; only if the main objective was to keep up with their target or supersede it. One example would be the T-38 Talon. NASA used them for mission support when the Space Shuttles were coming back down to terra firma.
@@therosijedha Not true!
@@therosijedha jet just crusin
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whats truly impressive is the railway track that allows it to go that fast
they're trusting the rail welds with their lives
All the TGV lines have special reinforced railway tracks to support such speed.
Wow. I never realized French people built machinery. I thought all they did was write poetry and like, make wine.
@@AlexGarcia-ze4ygConcorde, Airbus, Bugatti, Thales, Safran, etc.
@@louisjr7007 What about bread and cheese?
Absolutely amazing! They even went through curves at over 550 km/h! Even now in 2023 the only faster train is a maglev at 600 km/h, costing way more.
And that maglev hasn't actually even reached 600km/h yet, as the current test track is too short for the Chuo Shinkansen to reach the planned 600km/h. So that train still has to prove itself first.
@@kaelon9170 uh.. no. The maglev has reached 600km/h (it has a world record), it's just that during day-to-day operational use, it'll be limited to a little over 500km/h
Hard to compare those two since the Maglev doesn't roll on tracks but uses magnetic levitation instead
CHINA MAGLEV TECHIES PURCHASED FROM GERMANY BUT SHAMELESSLY CLAIMS IT'S THEIR OWN ACHEIVEVEMENT
@@xaviercharles9616exact
Probably my favourite music/video pairing on CZcams. Absolute magic
I was looking for this comment.
Respect to the cameraman who could keep up with the pace of the train.
They were on a freaking jet 😂
@@gamingbeast6760 they *are* the jet
the jet
Yeah, no body gives enough credit to the cameraman these days.
Talking about the camera man he was probably in the fighter jet
Try to imagine how good the track has to be in order to allow a train to travel that fast! Perfect track joins, no warping, absolutely perfect in every way. The track building is a great achievement as well.
Not possible on CSX track ;)
and the cornering
Even for basic trains, you can't even imagine how costly and tedious track maintenance is.
Not just the track the overhead electrical lines, those has to be more tight for this to be done because at going at such speeds with the regular commercial lines you would often lose power for a couple seconds and that aint good
Deutschland soll mal auf den Stand kommen
The French were always good at railway matters. As long ago as 1955 their electric locomotive hit 331 km/h - faster than the famous Japanese bullet train at 210 km/h in 1964.
France historically always been a speed demon Aerotrains, Concord, Veyron. While Japan mainly focuses on their frequency, yes they are not as fast as the French, even today. But when their Shinkansen trains arrive literally every 10 minutes, the passenger volume that they moved is astonishing.
I'm proud of these french folks. Amazing run!
I'm impressed by how fast the cameraman was able to get in position to take all those shots from different places.
hahahahahaha
@@OldPannonian Hey man before everyone gonna woosh you or laugh on, it was a sarcasm. welcome to internet
@@OldPannonian prepare to see this joke many, many more times
@@OldPannonian bro... this is so obiviously sarcasm LOL. dumbass
For the love of God, stop puking all over the comments with this.
The fact that it achieved over 500kmh on rails is really impressive. No maglev tech, which makes it cost effective. Also, this was 14 years ago (April, 3rd, 2007). Would love to see the improvements they made over the decade.
Not a lot, commercial TGV's still don't travel at this speed. It was just for the record because not all parts of railroads are able to support this speed.
The video itself screamed 2001-2002. But apparently it was as late as 2007.
Considering energy consumption at such speed, It is all gone nowadays
Actually the electricity bill for that operating speed could be horrible, fines for the loud noises as well.
The same story happened to Shanghai maglev, which was designed with a 430 kph operating speed and operates at a maximum of 300kph a few years later after the opening due to the high electricity cost and complaints about the noises from the residents who live next to the route.
the TGV will still manage to be late anyways
Wow, the standard of track alignment needs to be superb for that speed...incredible achievement
And the electric line need to be rigid enough so the wave generated in them, by the rod making the connection, is not caught up by that same rod. Imagine swiping a rectangular metal rod fast under a loose cotton thread.
リニアでなく 車輪走行で これは、凄い！
リニアもそうですが、すごい技術ですよね
While you were watching this video, the train would cross more than 88 kilometers. Insane!
Wut
Also the train is nuclear powered as it's in France.
@@illuminate4622
*What?*
@@canonboom165 The train is electric. 75% of France's electricity is nuclear generated.
Was just about to go and work that out, thanks for saving me the effort!
I love how relaxed the drivers were, knowing they could derail and die. Many respects to them
To be honest, this isn't the first run they did. They did several test run before the world breaking one. They even said that the equipment could stand up to 610kph.
They were not calm, they were not panicking but still worried/nervous
@@WinterNoxYeah. Even if nothing is likely to go wrong, it is still kind of frightening, because at that speed, if something did, there wouldn’t even be enough to bury.
The two guys that were standing next to the driver really did it for me. Standing on a train going almost 600km/h, imagine a subway train doing that
On a side note, planes do higher speeds, but the point of reference really matters to see how frighteningly fast you're actually moving
凄いな、鉄道で500km/h超えるとは思ってなかった。
As a cameraman who recorded this video under the train, I can say TGV is so fast.
That speed under the track pass bridge 8:30 was enough to tell a lot about what is 574 actually looks like on a train.
Now realize that a commercial plane flies at 965Km/h. How would that look on the ground?
@@Douken Imagine a rocket zooming past you, they go well above 10km/s, which is 36,000 km/h. Hard to even imagine such speeds
Straight zooming
@@ilikecats310 Not really the same thing both for rockets and planes, as you have less and less frictions as you go up in the atmosphere... The actual record for something on the ground is a car named ThrustSSC (thx google on this one :p) and it traveled at 1227kmph (763 mph), so faster than the sound. The record for a plane is 3.500 kmph. The other thing to take in mind is space, because you don't have to worry about how much lenght it has left on the racecourse..
Hello bro
Sounds like a guided missile
What does an unguided missile sound like?
@@mr8I7 Like a TGV world record
@@mr8I7 Rocket-like
@@mr8I7 like a nuclear missle just randomly popping out of a submarine
There was a jet aircraft following the train, that's what you heard.
It's amazing to see how far railway have got
Fué hace 16 años y su record ya lo han superado, pero como ingeniero mecánico electricista cada vez que miro este video casi lloro de emoción.
When did they surpass their record?
@@derthrongler2015 in Japan (603km/h 374 MPH)😊
@@RAILEXCELLENCE2011 The japanese one isnt a train though
This is the 3rd fastest train ever and fastest ever with wheels and no maglev, made by France in 2007. The L0 Maglev Japanese train is the fastest ever and set a land speed rail record of 603 km/h / 375 mph in 2015. Being only ~17km/h slower than todays fastest maglev train using wheels and being made 15 years ago is just incredible engineering. Amazing.
Maglev is not a train with rails it's magnetic sustentation. TGV is most fast train on the world ( record 2007)
If you mean train by deffiniton of railtransport, i dont think its fair to call a MagLev a train. MagLev and Railway are two diffrent technologies, both have their advantages and disadvantages but arent comparable.
Its like comparing a helicopter to a VTOL.
@@pascaldelaterre6531 Maglev trains are still trains, its a pointless and silly semantic argument to make.
I wouldn't call that maglev shit a train
absolutely correct 👍
And above all : at 574 km/h the whole train was still behaving pretty well, no anomaleous vibration or whatever...
Must be an Insane ingeneering precision,
I doubt those railways and wheel are just steel
It's 5748 🤣
It looks like at 5:05 there are sparks or something
@@lemat579 You can’t build fast trains out of steel in the first place.
@@lemat579 Normal rails, but they adjust the camber for better cornering. Plus they adjust the tension and voltage of the transmission lines to support the higher speeds. They do a lot of checks to make sure the track is sub-millimetre smooth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record#Record_run,_Operation_TGV_150
Отличное видео. Инженеры молодцы. И музыка с речью очень в тему наложена.
Какие молодцы! Дальнейших успехов вам!.
France 574,8 km/h - 2007
Poland 160 km/h - 2013
***** A v česku od 2014 jen 200 km/h.:D
*****
hm :D
ale v číně
W niedzielę padł nowy rekord pobity przez Pendolino- 270km/h
Dawid Bębenek Naprawde? Jest jakis filmik? Jak tak to pokaz.
WallThis Ano ale u nás je tratove omezení na 160 km/h v čechách.A ted možna by už konečne od nového roku 200 km/h Což je nic moc.Ale i tak aspoň něco.Ano ja vím že pendolino dá klidně 250km/h.
What impresses me even more than an electric train moving at 160 meters per second, is that the rails are lined up to allow the vehicle to do travel that fast. Hats off to the unnamed workers who built it! 👍
Why were unarmed given how dangerous trains can be?
@@AlexGarcia-ze4yg Read Mack's comment again, then think about yours
@@Intelligent_investor Oh thanks, dude! I forgot to add the word "they" in my comment.
@@AlexGarcia-ze4yg Not that. Unnamed, not unarmed
@@Intelligent_investor 🤣
Imagine being in a regular TGV at 320 km/h and being overtaken by a train travelling 254 km/h faster. Without an external frame of reference, it's as if you were standing still and a train was passing by you at 254 km/h.
The fact that they smashed the record on ballasted tracks, at ground level where the air is thickest and no gimmicks such as maglev still blows my mind, one of the greatest feats of human intelligence and engineering of all time!!!
0:33 Average human speed on a bicycle.
0:44 Average speed in a Tour de France stage.
0:47 Average horse speed
0:54 Honda Super CUB 90.
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4:38 Average electrical impulses of the human brain
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6:22 Top fuel dragster
8:18 TGV.
0:55 Trains in India
8:20 fucking jet
You miss hayabusa
an r6 barely hits 260, get your facts straight
@@aqueelahmad2893 hayabusas are too slow
Even now in October 2022 this is a massive achievement. I'd never seen this clip before, how exciting it would have been to see it happen live at the side of the track.
They are just vanity projects nothing else.
love it
A speed record attempt with a Southern third rail electric unit would be fun to try. A modified 4-Vep, perhaps ; )
@@bighands69 No, they aren't. SNCF always puts a fuckton of equipment on those trains because although it's pretty cool to reach speed record it's a lot more important to get experimental data from train's operation.
@@bighands69 Eh, not really. I went on a TGV from Paris to Nice recently and they were very fast and very comfortable. A class above UK trains.
После 500 км/час машинист стал улыбаться. Улыбка такая пипец, от ситуации этой кровь стынет.
The people who made this video NAILED IT they showed what you want to see from 0 to 574,8 from the train wheel at zero then then progresed up to top speed . the zoom in zoom out was great then the last minuite hitting top speed just beautiful ps the electical contact from train to the power line was realy cool at such a speed
*Follow the damn train CJ*
The train: 574 km/h
Hawk_3ye_32 😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
Who is cj?its not easy to follow that fast train
F*ck you Big Smoke !!
This train: 574 km/h
Sonic: is that a challenge I see
France 2007 - 574 km/h
Romania 2023 - 60 km/h
India in 2016:-160kmph
India in 2018:-180kmph
Pakistan 2021-90km/h...😕😕😕😕
Even in France all trains are not fast. Up to last year the arrival in Cannes included passing a bridge at 40 km/h czcams.com/video/O5u2-aLhJz8/video.html (the bridge has been renovated since then), and several secondary lines have their allowed speed reduced because they are not well maintained.
have you remember Japan 😂😂
Shikasen named train that was awsome af😱
La vale daca merge cu 50:))
Absolutely amazing, awesome and astounding performance of an electric train, which is hurtling down at the tracks with more than 1 1/2 time the speed of a turbo propelled plane. The overall quality of tracks, overhead electric wiring, Electric Pentium, signalling systems and host of other infrastructure facilities deserve highest praise. 👌👌👍👍
Mean while in India trains are dreaming to run @ speed of 170 km/hr
legends say CJ is still following this damn train.
Underrated comment😂😂😂
LMAO
Hahaa
So true
All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ.
Legend says getting hit by this train will send you to a new solar system
Lol
@@nikitadas541 i liked your comment
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
More like vaporize you. You wouldn't exist anymore
😂😂😂❤️frm🇮🇳India
In the US travel time from Chicago to St Louis 6 hours on a good day. Lyon to Paris about the same distance, get in done in 2 hours on TGV. US stuck in 19th C passenger service.
Even less than 2 hours lol
What impresses me more is how well the cameras near the wheels were stuck on, imagine at 574km/h it falls off and obliterates someone
7:50 perspective plays such a huge role. Seeing that footage alone I would never say the train is going faster than an F1 car on a straight.
And it's going twice as fast...
Achieving high top speed isn't the aim of F1....accelerating and decelerating in the shortest time possible is. So shouldn't compare them but I get the gist of what you said.
@@divyanshtiwari3547 F1 cars can exceed 200MPH with DRS. I think its a pretty good example
@@francoisgueretteThat's true, but the person said F1 cars weren't made for high speed. Their aerodynamics are worse than normal cars, because they create so much downforce
Bro it won't because it's heavier than an F1 you fool, it can accelerate faster. Top speed that thing wins.
@@divyanshtiwari3547 I'm not comparing acceleration, I'm comparing perspective and long straight top speed.
Even a 2003 F1 Car before braking on the Monza straight, due to the camera angles, FOV and distance to the wall, "appears" to be going much faster than the train here.
When it reached 250 and I thought another 250 to go.. My mind simply blew up. What an engineering marvel❤️
For humans it is very difficult to achieve this speed,
but for aliens like me, its a Ant speed, and average speed we usually travel is nearly 5 to 6 thousand KM per sec.,
Its time for Humans to act like a matured guys and don't enjoy for just achieving 500 kmph. Lol
Another 320*, insane
Another 324 😆
I've gone at 250 with a car driving and the thing you feel is tunnel vision probably at 570 as you can see in the video that feel should even much bigger. You go like you are going slow watching the front but you don't see nothing more only what is in front of you. That's why is so dangerous you don't perceive the speed.
Просто невероятно... Какая космическая уверенность должна быть у " Пилотов"( по другому не сказать) в том, что с дорогой всё в порядке... И впереди -- ни- ко-го... Восхищает непоколебимое спокойствие людей, ведущих этот состав... Браво!
Awesome job getting a piece of track that straight and the powertrain wheels sorted
2:59 That was very unlucky.
After that insect splashed into the camera, from that point they haven't showed anymore footage of that camera
Она погибла воимя прогреса
I didnt saw it 😂
R. I. P Insect you will be remembered.
@@pickachugaming2207 😂
@@user-on2di1ui6k я думал один зарубежные ролики смотрю😂
I know this test train had only 4 carriages, but the fact that it only took it 2 and a half minutes to reach 300 kph is veeeery impressive.
For this train, many of the wheels are powered, not just the locomotives. It is part of what they where testing in the first place and the excuse for the whole thing.
@@leszekandhisrandomstuff.9228 Thanks for clarifying that, it makes much more sense now!
@@leszekandhisrandomstuff.9228 Wait a minute, if the carriages were powered as well, wouldn't that make it an EMU or not because there are power cars?
@@ivangenov6782 yes. And it is. This is also true of Japanese shinkansen which are also emu's.
25k hp
Eita, que rápido! Quando será que vai ter um desse aqui no Brasil 🇧🇷, vou ter que ir pra França pra andar nesse trem ☺️🫂😘👋🌻🇧🇷
What's actually amazing is that this was achived with everyday technology. People can actually ride trains like this (at "only" 350Km/h because faster isn't necessary) every day; it's not a once in a blue moon experiment, there are thousands of kilometres of rails being traveled by the TGV at this moment.
I was a passanger in this beauty, from Germany to Paris, we drove "only" 320 km/h, but the thought that this thing can drive 500 km/h was exciting
Oh damn
Almost 600…
it can't, this is a special trainset
the normal one cannot. as far as i know the normal tgv doesnt have motors in the middle cars, only the front and rear ones have motors. so it wouldnt even have the power to weight ratio with the same number of cars as shown here.
They don't go past 320 because such higher speeds will require more power and electricity.
The french have an obsession with speed; Buggati, TGV, Dassault
all just marvellous machines
Concorde?
@@beorlingo that too
Unfortunately Bugatti is more German than French nowadays
Unfortunately Bugatti - Ettore Bugatti was born in Italy...
Thierry Henry and Mbappe too.
I love the excitement this video gave me, very impressive
0:51 80 km/h
1:28 160 km/h
1:52 190 km/h
2:08 220 km/h
3:02 320 km/h
3:16 340 km/h
4:07 430 km/h
4:49 490 km/h
4:57 490 km/h
5:22 495 km/h
6:17 510 km/h
6:26 520 km/h
7:05 555 km/h
Thanks
Привет
Привет как ты мне это письмо прислал в понедельник
@Daily Dose Of Stupitity dude u cant even write ur yt name
cheetah has been left the chat
Huge respect to the cameraman who had recorded all these things for us
He did this singlehandedly.
Ngl this cameraman should have a 999% raise.
Even more respect for the guys who drived the train
Bruh the cameraman is so good at his job that he even got some shots of the wheels. Insane! Now just watch the cameraman run alongside the train and beat it, like the CAMERAMAN video that has 100M views.
czcams.com/video/kcKlD2F6rqI/video.html
The way that man said FORMIDABLE. A true train lover there.
Impressive that so long ago, just a normal bullet train on a track can go almost as fast as the recently broken record with the Japanese Maglev train.
IMO that record is a different tittle. This is the record for "Conventional wheel" train. While the maglev is for, well... "Maglev Train"
4:20 The first time I saw windows Xp running that fast.
Ultra Baba it’s a pretty good os actually
Nice time code
*_4:20_**_ blaze it_*
It's a very good os.
4:20
I got to go about 310 kph in France once on a TGV and I was very impressed and feeling the speed, what a ride this test run must have been, wow!
@Baron Battles I've ridden the Eurostar from Milano to Torino several times, some sections hit 300Kph. Worth every Euro.
Amazing view !
Well done all who are involved in this great scientific achievement
Fiz a viagem de Lyon a Paris num TGV. Impressionante, inesquecível 😊
In the UK it would be considered lucky if our trains got to 57.4 km/h. But to get a train up to 574.8 km/h is truly amazing.
same in Denmark, there's this 2 hour long train drive for a 110km distance. Jikes a car is faster even within the speed limit
Haha on greater anglia I would imagine so
play fair,we have the world's fastest diesel.that record still stands nearly 40 years later!
I don't live in the Uk but trains can get up to 200km/h
@@bigmacntings7451yeah the fastest steam and diesel locomotive belongs to the UK
France 574,8 km/h - 2007
Poland 160 km/h - 2013
Vietnam 76,65km/h - 2019 and already have a strategic plan to raise it to 90 km/h, WOW! Amazing!
Hard to drive @full speed through the jungle!
Romania 50 km/h 2022 and already strategic plan to raise the new greatest church in europe
*Awesome*
And
Japan 550km/h - 1997
Aust 100km... 2022. And now looking on extending tracks between major cities,.. the gov has been talking about this for decades.. and still nothing 😂😂..
@@djkramerd4582 Yes... But we did built the People's Salvation Cathedral
Wow amazing electric train capable to reach such speed without maglev technology
Stunning that this was in the cards with wheels on rail.
Maglev is only just exceeding this speed.
The driver must have realised his childhood dream of driving very fast. Now he must be happy and fulfilled.
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@@perfectplate2656 fuck you
Thrust SSC can break the sound barrier
@@AppleLauda_destroyer99942
*What is Thrust SSC?*
@@canonboom165 A rocket car. It reached 763 mp/h on 15th October 1997 in the black Rock desert in Nevada. It was so fast that it broke the sound barrier
Love France. Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Trains, Food, amazing.
Greetings from Slovakia
Merci
terrible people
@@esperawolf29still true in some sense
Imagine Aberdeen to London Kings X in about 1 hour!😂
Mbappe also
Imagine you are waiting for a railroad crossing and out of nowhere you see a 574.8 km/h train
Sure... but why would there be a grade crossing on a high-speed line...
Salute to the engineers who built that Train and the pilots who drove that..
And especially to the engineers that built and maintained the track this train took
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk merci ! ;)
When I worked in France in the 90s there was a crossing where there had been a bit of an oversight and you could squeeze through the fence and stand quite close to the TGV as it went by less than a metre away. You wanted to be holding on to that fence I can tell you.
I rode it often from Paris to Poitiers and far preferred it to air travel, and I'm a pilot!
Just a superb bit of kit.
and when I watch it all I see is how much safer and comfortable flying is !!!! This looks like a carnival ride for those with nerves of Steel !!! lol !!! No Thanks !!!!
@@bleepbleep1961 no trains are fun too
@@bleepbleep1961 yeah, I can't think of my favorite part of flying.. The lack of space, scenery, and oxygen. Maybe the TSA security checkpoints. Tiny windows. The smell of kerosene and gasoline. The massive amount of concrete. Noise. Cars. Tiny little windows, babies crying. The drive to and from the airport.
No thanks. This thing looks like the future.. And it's from 2007! Incredible stuff. Bravo, France. Holy shit.
@@Tysca_ what f..ing concrete are you talking about?
@@arberkurjuni9214 lol
Have you noticed the sparks between overhead wire and the pantograph? In such speed the resistance and friction must be immense.
whats even more impressive its how Long the track is
Those 3 guys standing up front looking down the tracks is priceless. I'm thinking somewhere around 104km/h it really doesn't matter what you see up ahead...you're not stopping in time. Never mind cruising at 574.
Thats what. Even with deep concentration if they were to notice something wrong, what could they do?
heh you can also be going 30KM/h in something like the big boys maxium rated load and you may not be stopping for a good 20 minutes though
Beep their horn if there's something living on the tracks ig?
The machining precision that those wheels must have required had to be off the charts. They must be spinning somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000 RPM at top speed (I based the calculation on a guess of 30" dia. wheels -it's a little hard to tell from the video, but that guess might be reasonably close). Very impressive precision! Yes, I'm a precision geek.
Do not forget suspension, it also plays a key role. In fact, all train structure had to be optmised.
The test Tgv received special wheels for the record attempt, bigger than those used for commercial exploitation, in order to limit the speed of the drivetrain. Their diameter was 109,2 cm (40.51 in) instead of 92 cm (36.22 in).
As an engineer, i don't quite appreciate why the wheels have to be machined to extreme high precision, besides obvious vibration and track derailing concerns but i would think a very good precision (not an extremely good one) should be enough. I mean some road sports cars like the bmw e92 m3 has a V8 engine that routinely can spin its cranshaft to 8,300 rpm redline for quite a long time a peak speed ! (i know, i own the car) and that is with a highly unequal explosion cycle and balancing that is not going to be perfect. Yes i know that TGV is carrying hundred tons of weight on these wheels but they're also thick enough for that, and the e92 is developping 420 horsepower at 8,300 rpm. So nah i am not surprised and i think the extreme precision is overkill.
@@ericastier1646 There is no need wheels to be manufactured with extreme precision, Just think about the rails, their precision, arrangement and tolerance. Suspension system plays a very important role.
@@gorangoran6335 in fact the engineering problem can be posed in terms of the wheel s shoulder depth that keeps it lodged inside the track. If the vibrations are not sufficiently attenuated by the suspension for the given track characteristics and weight of the train then it can derail the train. This can be modeled and simulated nicely with simple mathematical differential equations model. The expansion of metal with temperature is an interesting factor. It would be interesting to know in what season the speed test was done.
At those speeds, I am curious what the friction on the pantograph would be. Did they have to change the carbon strip after this run?
8:01 this man exclaims ‘Formidable!’ Which is French for “Fuck me daft!“.
If you don’t believe me just listen to him a couple of times
I've long admired the French. When they do things, it's on a grand scale. Once when travelling across France by bus, I could see the TGV snaking across the countryside. It was very impressive. It was twisting and going up and down as it rolled across the land and very soon, it disappeared from view.
Thats true rather its success or failure the French go all in
I have always admired European genes, whether in Europe or America or Australia or Canada or any other established Western/Occidental nation or culture.
Fun Fact; The Mine Detector was invented by the French and it is still saving lives today...
Nous avons des bon ingénieurs mais, des mauvais politique en France !!!!
@@manuelmigues8542 Compared to the Clowns in London, Macron is a beacon of light …
2:58
Most unluckiest bug ever
Rip
You mean 3:00
... but a very succesful youtuber with more than 31 million views.
@@19Edurne *million
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Those last shots were EVERYTHING
8:15 man this is an uncanney amount of speed
I can really appreciate the fact that a lot of the people who worked on this train and who made it possible were actually riding it during this test run. If anything, anything at all, would be wrong with it, all the engineers would experience it first-hand. That makes you want to do your job right.
Hell this thought never crossed my mind until i read your comment.Nice philosophic view.
and then there is an accident and they all die
I mean if I worked on a project like this youre damn right I would want to sit in for a ride of my life
8:15 is the best shot. Puts the scale and speed into perspective.
8:15 is a different train if you look at the colorings. I believe that was a different record attempt.
@@andrewhilly32 Bling Bling probably mention about that shot form the distance 08:17 (time stamps are not accurate) BTW train saounds like plane
@@andrewhilly32methinks it has two paint jobs -one on the right side and one on the left. But he meant the 8:16 countryside shot anyway
It's sound like Fighter jet
There are 3 clips from the side of the track which really put it into perspective tho its not in the video. At about 8:30 you see the train pass a bridge and pass some people wooing, theres another video on youtube with the 3 clips from those wooing
Salute to the team who built that track and train....
Super engineering.,
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Magnífico, gostaria de ter a oportunidade de andar num brinquedo desses...tem que ter um coração forte..
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This video makes me feel nostalgic for the 2000’s, when I was still young. I remember I saw this on television. I was left in awe when it was over. God, do I miss those days.
The 90's was even better
Все мы скучаем по тем дням. В любой стране. Как же скучно и уныло мы живём
Банки нас грабят !!!
I want to know how long does it take to slow it down to a stop
Were people young in the 2000s ? I thought people were only young in like the 50s or 60s
As always, props to the camera man for running so fast to be able to film this train😂
They're running trains at 500 kmph but still no accidents ,but in India even when we run at 100 kmph drastic accident happens.
Amazing feat of engineering! Almost as fast as a plane.
Needed: straight railroad + 3 men staring ahead with deep concentration.
and around 12 more in the Control Room watching Screens with lots of gauges and numbers !!!
Planes fly at ground speeds of over 800 km/h
@@olfmombach260 You ruin the moment.
@@olfmombach260 yeah though the panning left that starts remaining consistent towards the end would suggest its effectivly outspeeding the plane used or it would be able to hold it with less panning or more panning to the right like you can notice towards the start
@@bleepbleep1961 I think they are sitting in one of the coaches.
I love how the train driver can't erease the smile of his face, this was probably the best day of his life
Comparsion:
TGV max speed: 300~ km/h or 574,8 km/h
Airbus A380 max cruise speed: 1.185 km/h
the amount of times i re-watched this when i was younger 😌
From Wikipedia... Following a series of increasingly high-speed runs, the official speed record attempt took place on 3 April 2007.[2][3] The top speed of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph) was reached at kilometer point 191 near the village of Le Chemin, between the Meuse and Champagne-Ardenne TGV stations, where the most favorable profile exists. It reached top speed 12 minutes 40 seconds and 73 km after leaving Prény from a standstill.[4]
Woooòooooòooóoooooóooöoooooow !
"Le chemin" what a garbage town name 💀it litterally mean "the path" in french
@@timdu7832that’s funny
Fascinating that by the time it hit top speed it was 73km along
@@timdu7832 I would be proud to live in a town with a name that means "The Path." It means that travelers basically have to or need to pass through your town.
Train in Belarus in 2020:60 km/h
Train in France in 2009:575 km/h
Belarusian people:WHAT?
This record was set on April 3, 2007 🇫🇷❤
У Лукашенко спроси, ок!
На такой скорости только стоячие места в поезде.
Я Беларус на поезде ни разу не катался :(
Здарова русским)
Everyone is talking about how the rails can support such speed but what about the overhead wire? Wouldn’t the friction shred it apart
The catenary system are design as such the pantograph on the train to be worn out first.
Awesome. In America they're still trying to figure out how to keep trains on the track
Hyperloop: "Look we can send 2 people 500 meters at 100mph"...TGV POS: "Hold my Croissant!"
@@andrulifts 🧢🧢🧢🧢
@@andrulifts hyperloop top speed is 467 km/h
@@andrulifts dude the hyperloop doesn't have capacity for shit lmao, it's a fucking boondoggle
@@andrulifts when it finishes development...
Hyperloop requires less energy during use, but problem comes with structural engineer, sustainability, etc. They work in theory but they just can't be put anywhere over their intended long distances. They probably won't even reach 467 km/h without a problem occuring. Which would danger Passengers lives massively.
Still gives me goosebumps watching this run over again.