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France celebrates train's new speed record in Champagne
A French TGV train broke a world speed record on Tuesday as it hurtled down a newly built track at 357 miles per hour (574.8 kilometers per hour) in the country's Champagne region.The event run was broadcast live on television in France and Germany. The total record operation cost $40 million (30 million euros), shared by the three partners.
High-speed trains in France, as well as rail links to London, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam, are competing with plane travel, and several French regional airlines have gone out of business since the TGV started in 1981.
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