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French government buys 15 TGVs in bid to save Alstom plant

  by amtrakowitz
 
The Local
The French government has confirmed that it will order 15 high-speed TGV trains in a bid to prevent the historic Alstom train-building plant from closing.

The announcement was made by France's secretary of state for industry Christophe Sirugue on a visit to the Alstom factory in Belfort, eastern France.

Normally the state-owned rail operator SNCF would be in charge of ordering new trains, but given the plight of the Belfort factory and the small matter of a looming presidential election, the government has chosen to act on its own. …

Re: French government buys 15 TGVs in bid to save Alstom pla

  by george matthews
 
SemperFidelis wrote:And let the Randian commentary commence...
The new TGV trains will not be useless. It may well be that they are useful. I would note how the US passenger rail system is crippled by a constant shortage of equipment.

Re: French government buys 15 TGVs in bid to save Alstom pla

  by JayBee
 
With 453 TGV sets on hand, they aren't really short of equipment. They have 40 sets of the RGV 2N2 version on order to replace an equivalent number of TGV Atlantique sets which will be retired and scrapped.
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