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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 »
ISBN-13: 9780275973773
ISBN-10: 0275973778
Publication Date: 7/30/2001
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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