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On the Fast Track: French Railway Modernization and the Origins of the TGV, 1944-1983
On the Fast Track French Railway Modernization and the Origins of the TGV 19441983 Author:Jacob Meunier For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact. All this changed with the introduction of first commercial run of the famed Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon in the early 1980s. In v... more »ivid detail, Meunier describes the political, economic, and social factors that drove the development of the world's fastest, most technologically advanced train.« less