Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail services a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.

France’s famed high-speed rail service TGV INOUI is facing a backlash after introducing a new premium-class carriage that bans children.

Backlash against the debut of child-free business class on France’s high-speed trains could see laws introduced which ban kid-free carriages on the basis of discrimination. Earlier this month, the ...

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Welcome to the future of European high-speed rail travel. French railway company SNCF and train manufacturer Alstom have unveiled the first completed TGV M, a next-generation high-speed double-decker ...

The SNCF turned to Durisotti, one of France’s largest commercial vehicle upfitters, to convert a quartet of Renault Master vans into locomotive lookalikes. Say that five times fast. What spec of van ...

France has "medicalized" several of its high-speed TGV trains to transport coronavirus patients from harder-hit cities to less affected places in the country. On March 26, the first service of ...