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Improvement Of French Railway System
In France there is a high speed train called train a grande viteese or in short TGV that runs on five major tracks.
Paris and the south-east France together with Lyon Dijon, Nice, Marseille, Avignon and Perpignon are connected by the TGV south-east line. This train halts at Geneva in Switzerland and passes through the French Alps.
Paris and the west coast are connected by the TGV Atlantic line. Nantes, La Rochelle, Toulouse the Loire Valley, Bordeaux and the French Basque are the stops allocated for this TGV train line.
The high speed TGV northern train line connects Paris to Lille and Calais, two of the major cities in the north of France.
Eurostar, probably the most famous train line, runs between Paris and London through the Channel Tunnel, stopping at Lille, Calias and Ashford in Kent along the way.
The high speed TGV Thalys line serves major European cities like Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam, making travel to various European countries from France much easier.