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 the famed Train a Grande
Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon in the early 1980s. In vivid
detail, Meunier describes the political, economic, and social
factors that both helped and hindered the development of the
world's fastest, most technologically advanced train.
The present-day enthusiasm in France for high-speed rail travel
dates only to the successful launch of the now-famous TGV in 1981.
Until now, most published accounts of French high-speed rail have
been of a technical nature and have ignored or minimized the
historical, political, economic, and social context. Historians
have been left with detailed descriptions of locomotives and
experimental test runs, but there has been scant information
cercerning why the machines were built and why the tests were
carried out in the first place. This book is the first full-length
treatment of high-speed rail travel and the bibliography is one of
the most complete on the subject.
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