TGV cab ride

[O405N]

Nice sound, thank you!

[dashloc]

@O405N You welcome, cheers :)

[Tiscando]

The traction motors are AC synchronous motors driven by variable frequency drivers. They're like large scale brushless motors.

[liloex56]

are normal civillians allowed to get in the the TGV driving cab?

[dashloc]

@liloex56 Not exactly, i work for the french railway...this help !

[HCTW516]

How did you get into the front of the train?

[dashloc]

@HCTW516 I work for the french railway.

[DickHBox]

That's a noisy cab.

[dashloc]

@DickHBox Yeah... ab it too much !

[althom01]

all i need is acdc to listen to

[bangersfuzzy]

The Sound of Motor has wat from the E636 from Italy.

[alifshafari]

woooaaahhh.....im so scared watching this when it reached full speed rrrrrr....... >_<

[dashloc]

@alifshafari lol :P

[dragon10452]

what about extending the eurostar to scotland,the diesels are making me sick

[Paljassus77]

i'm 15 years now, and i wanna be a train driver since i'm 3. my biggest dream is to drive the TGV or AGV, so i hope this is what i'm gonna see when i'm grown up.

thanks for the video :)

[dashloc]

@Paljassus77 Your welcome, i hope your dream be come true ! :)

[Paljassus77]

@dashloc thanks :)

[wdowa94]

These motors are DC or AC?

[dashloc]

@wdowa94 DC power if i'm right !

[wdowa94]

@dashloc so they aren't damped- vibrates very much

[dashloc]

@wdowa94 many vibrations, it's because the boogie is under the cab !

[petesstuff]

4.44 check out all those splattered bugs :-)

[bertant1]

The French trains are so great! Love them everyday!

[AE53TZJ]

sounds lovely. please bring them to uk

[Hackerwifi]

Traction motors sound... Beautiful :)

[dashloc]

@Hackerwifi yup ! almost the perfect song :)

[FlorinROeurope]

@Hackerwifi check this sound watch?v=3VLyd8eUF68&feature=ch­annel_video_title , romanian locomotive, and this watch?v=OJ7VZ2jEuog&feature=re­lmfu .

[simonspics1]

Wow! thats awesome! I wish North America would have trains like this! I would guess at speeds like this the computer would have to be doing most of the work,no human eye could see far enough or be quick enough to react in the event of an emergency.

[IMYVaKE]

Powerful sound.



[crazyrailfan152]

wow i can see why theyre the worlds fastest trains

[Drewvinci]

Alstom needs to keep making more TGV Locomotives. I don't like the new Eurostar trains. The old Eurostar trains in my opinion are far better than the new Eurostar Velaro Ds.

[ejvideos07]

Just when you trhink it can't go any faster, it speeds up even more ! Incredible wind up. Did the railway have to build a special fence either side of the track to prevent animals wandering onto it ? Hitting a cow or deer at this speed would be catastrophoc.

[dashloc]

@ejvideos07 No special fences, but there some place where the fences is more higher.All high speed lines have fences here, it's for prevent from intrusion is the Railway space, animals or not ! Yes, the most common animals hit on this lines are roe and boars, at this high speed, nose and fender exploded. (there are built with high fiber glass components).

[miwt]

cool

[lexmarks567]

The 4 people who hate this are the current US governors who killed our current HSR dreams

[HARTline2012]

@lexmarks567 agreed. I live in Florida & our governor is trying to negotiate w/Japan & other private parties to fund our line. Otherwise it wil die.

[mytube2327]

日本語で書きます。

日本の新幹線とは異なり、動力集中式の機関車の音が興味あります­。

駆動系のギア周辺の音は動力分散式の新幹線とは異なり、騒音は大­きいですね。

釣り掛け式ではなく、WN駆動なのでしょうけどノッチOFFで惰­力走行のときとONで力行のときが音からはっきりと判るのが興味­深いです。

動力を持たない客車は静かでしょうね！

[12moshpit]

Gosh i got to come down one day one question is Euro star as fast as this ??? Im thinking of going down to Lyon

[dashloc]

@12moshpit Eurostar ? max speed 300 kmh ! So yes they run at the same speed on this line ( Lyon/Paris).

[somkidmex]

Cool,Maybe it like Shinkansen that I had experience.

[johnson4449]

Nice video. I would like to see the cab controls etc.

[bernard240vdc]

Quinzio here mentionned the overhead line been at 25kv dc well i should correct him the line is at 25kv but ac not dc as far as know these locomotives have a transfomer in them instead of a diesel generator like our locomotives here in canada the voltages are stepped down from 25 kv to say a 1000 volts or so and rectified to dc for the traction motors on older locomotives now on newer generation units they have ac traction motors probebly fed by variable frequency drives

[bernard240vdc]

Quinzio here mentionned 17 Mega watts well that is the same as 17000 kw or about 25000 hp yep that seems about right that is about the same as on some very heavy freight trains all that power put on a passenger train its bound to go fast

[bernard240vdc]

i rode the tgv from lille to marseille from northern France to the mediteranian sea in 4.5 hours in 2007 sure beats the train system here in Canada at one time you could go just about anywhere in Canada by train now there is just about nothing left

[GSIBOSS]

Id love Jeremy Clarkson to have a cab ride in a TGV and hear him say POWERRR

[kevin0070]

kickass ride!!!!!!!!!

[dashloc]

@kevin0070 Yup ! thanks ^^

[HARTline2012]

I wish we had this in the US. Gosh darn it! I love the High Speed Rail in France :)

[dashloc]

@HARTline2012 Yeah i hope for you too, high speed trains are perfect for the mass transit ! :P

[CecakKobeng]

@dashloc too bad i can only hope one for malaysia but the gov keep on planning but cancelling it so many times.

[dashloc]

@CecakKobeng A bit like the USA ! I hope that will work one time !

[xplaur]

Merci beaucoup! The same cruise control system he have on our latest series of locomotives 060ED (the old ASEA 060EA with the latest upgrades; ex: electronic command auxiliary services insted of electropneumatic command sistems, two onboard P4 computers instead of nothing :D , etc...). By the way: I am locomotive engineer too!

[dashloc]

@xplaur De rien, excepted the old TGV, all the TGV have the SIAC ( Systeme informatique d'aide à la conduite ) help driving management system, who is helping for brakes test and every anomaly in the rems, if i good remember thos 060ED have a GM engines inside ?And... I'm not really an enginer, certainly in fews years when i got upgrade in my job :)

[xplaur]

@dashloc 060ED is an upgraded ASEA 060EA, built in Romania and is an electric locomotive, not Diesel-Electric!

[xplaur]

The engineer really drive the train, or is loading the route details in the computer, is pressing a resume button and the train computers do the rest at that speed?

[dashloc]

@xplaur Not exactly, the train can't be driving by a computer, but you have a cruise system, you put the speed what you want and the train accelerate or brakes for keep the speed, like the same you can find on modern car (automobile).

[ChrisRx83]

AWESOME!!! what's that beep that can be heard at 1:11? Wheelslip?

[dashloc]

@ChrisRx83 Thank you, not really the beep is the speed on the cab signal changing

Maybe you know, there no classic signal on high speed lines, the cab signal onboard tell you the speed to reach, this can change everytimes on the trip !

[MrJames27011]

@lolozx56 Which SNCF workshop/maintenance depot do you work in exactly? and what job to you do at this workshop?

[dashloc]

@MrJames27011 I move the TGV in the workshop, it's the " TSEE "( Technicentre Sud Est Européen) Paris East South.

[Drewvinci]

I wish that the TGV upgrade their speed to go faster than 200mph because I'm tired of people keep talking about how the ICE 3 trains go faster than the TGV because they are high-speed EMU trainsets. That's what some people claiming, but I claim TGV all the way. The reason is that I believe that the TGV can out speed the Maglev, the Shinkansan trainsets, and those so-called ICE3s.

[dashloc]

@lolozx56 Yeah i work for the French Railway, SNCF, in one of the 3 TGV workshop in Paris.

[dashloc]

@lolozx56 salut, No special certification, but i had my card of Railway's worker !

yeah sometimes you can ask to the enginer ( i had try sometimes before i got a job in the Railway) it's hard, but that's work sometimes.

[bonan960623]

Althought some types of the TGV can run much faster than 320 km/h, they are not designed to do so. The record speed train was a special version with only four carriages and the line voltage was rised from the ordinary of 25 kV to 31,5 kV. Keep in mind, that te oldest lines are built in the 70s, and most likely can´t support any higher speeds. Futher, at higher speeds than around 350 km/h, there are some sort of problem with the connection to the overhead wire.

[suncoolclose]

The TGV is my favourate high speed train in the world nice shot there :) ive always wondered if they do tests of the trains at 357 MPH why cant they run them with passengers on at slightly faster speeds than 186 MPH such as speeds between 250-300 MPH?

[dashloc]

@suncoolclose Actually the max speed is 200mph here, maybe they will grow up, they work about. Imagine that's higher speed in normal used, the maintenance of the train and the track is really more heavy for the time win on the schedule !

[suncoolclose]

@dashloc I don't know inst it something to do with the signalling or stopping points whatever they are on high speed rail? don't they need to be further apart or is that not a issue because if they went 300MPH all the time I'm sure they would be quicker than a aircraft for most domestic routes

[dashloc]

@suncoolclose Yes certainly, we will see maybe in fews years what that's done !

[ie210]

nice sounds!

[dashloc]

@ie210 yup ! ^^

[TheHeavyload]

Puhh!! Thanks for the ride!

[dashloc]

@TheHeavyload Your welcome :)

[strastrain]

Je suis accro a t vidéo =) LOl bientot moi j'en mettré (faut que j'ai mon cable) et tu vera mes début LOL

[dashloc]

@strastrain Merci, ok, envoie tes vidéos quand elles sont prêtes !

[strastrain]

@dashloc Ya pas de souci il y en a en préparation yen a déjà une en ligne ;)

[dashloc]

@strastrain Yup j'ai vu ça :)

[THEFINALHAZARD]

How is it you get in the cab of a TGV? Is that somethign allowed?

[andyc225]

@THEFINALHAZARD I think he works for SNCF.

[THEFINALHAZARD]

@andyc225 Ah.

[dashloc]

@andyc225 Yup, it's what i had explain to this guy, lol come back from holidays ! :P

[dashloc]

@THEFINALHAZARD Not really, i work for the French Railways, so it's easy for me to have a cab ride !

[THEFINALHAZARD]

@dashloc Haha, yeah, that DOES make it easy!

[dashloc]

@THEFINALHAZARD Yup sure ! ;)

[EWS60500]

Incredible, how does the driver know how fast he is supose to go and is it incab signaling, like ERTMS

[dashloc]

@EWS60500 Yup, it's the cab signal, a classic on high speed lines :)

[cajoke]

This video ended too soon. I couldn't get enough. Are there any other videos like this one? Would love to know.

[dashloc]

@cajoke Yes, other cab ride, from other channel, (you can write in french: " TGV vue cabine") or you can find 3 others videos about cab ride on my channel on YT :)

[howardkevinm]

How many km did the train travel in the time the video ran? im guessing around 40-50km

[dashloc]

@howardkevinm And not ! i check the trip in google earth, almost 25 km :)

[howardkevinm]

@dashloc how can check in google earth? i have it.

[dashloc]

@howardkevinm Ok, GE GPS location 46°46'4.29"N 4°29'58.78"E

station Le Creusot TGV, go north using the used the rule in GE to measure the distance, you need to look at the end of the video witch place the train finish than you measure, any question ?

[dashloc]

@howardkevinm ok, write " le creusot gare TGV" in google earth, than follow the line to the north, from the station, it's the place where that was recorded.

[Lazergoatproductions]

Oh comment cela est une œuvre d'art

[dashloc]

@Lazergoatproductions merci :)

[alpinweiss]

looks like its going uphill! :)

[dashloc]

@alpinweiss Yes, a bit :)

[LifeinTechnicolourii]

Sounds like a space ship!

[dashloc]

@LifeinTechnicolourii, Yes sure !

[hopki65]

very noisy loco

[dashloc]

Yes, sure Hopki65 !

[ffeenixxx]

I wish the French would come over to the UK and sort our goddamn railway. I love the TGV:)

[gregrudd]

@ffeenixxx

Yeah get the French/Japaneese in for the passenger side of things and the Americans in to fix the Freight side of things. Give both parties a blank cheque and for freight increase the loading gauge so that double stack containers and standard US road locomotives can be used.

[ffeenixxx]

@gregrudd Now you're talking, a multinational railway!

[andybowe]

the limiting factor for double stacking in Europe would be overhead wires and also the switch to knuckle couplers over buffer and chain and hook type couplers at least EU could go with the russian SA3 type knuckle coupler and go with 5 ft track guage then one could have the trans Siberian railway go all the way to Paris from Vladivostok Russia

[GloucesterAdam]

@ffeenixxx Well, they own our electricity so heck yeah why not sell them our railways too? State ownership RIP in that case....

[AndreiTupolev]

@GloucesterAdam

But SNCF is state owned. And while they may make a good job of high speed passenger services, their freight side is losing money something drastic.

[dashloc]

@AndreiTupolev Yeah: " ...losing money something drastic..." Losing money something [catastrophic] certainly much appropriate !!!

[Citeyosh]

J'adore ! +5

> Aurais-tu des vidéos à bord du TGV duplex sur le secteur de Lyon (en cabine bien sûr), ce serait sympa ! =)

[dashloc]

@Citeyosh, merci, j'ai "LGV Rhone alpes cab ride" ou il y a des séquences autour de Lyon, rien d'autres de prévue pour le moment.

[OSCALETRAINGUY]

WOWOWOW...A+ A+ thank You

I would never get there..Very

Very AWESOME Civil ENGINEERING!!!

Steve In Canada

[dashloc]

Your welcome OSCALETRAINGUY :)

Dash- from Paris,Fr.

[priestpilot]

@OSCALETRAINGUY

I feel the same way, it's great!

From soon to be civil engineer, Kevin from Canada

[h0troddude]

Nice video! is the tgv smooth to ride?

[dashloc]

Thank you hOtroddude, yes .

[Charonview]

Hmmm........no grade crossings, no signals (that I saw), 0 to 186 mph - what a railroad!! Thank you much.

[dashloc]

Your welcome Charonview, There some signal (blue panel whit yellow arrow) used for materialized a canton from another one, only used if the cab signal fail, whit restrictive speed. :)

[ZbLuffer]

By "canton", dashloc means a block. ;)

[gp40mc]

Awesome video! 5/5 and favorited!

[dashloc]

Thanks Gp40mc :)

[lokfuhrer233]

Music from synchrom Lok TGV Duplex - Great motive dashloc! 5 Stars *****

[dashloc]

Yup ! thanks Lokfuhrer233

[Alighieri1363]

Thank you for those magnifique moments when you bring to us this beautyfull view! Thank God that French ENGINEERS exist and for this super technical performance!

Vive la France! We are with you, our brothers!

[dashloc]

Your welcome Alighieri1363 :)

Thanks for the kind comment :)

[scottisaak]

why dont we have these in the USA?

[topjaizkibel]

Yesterday I took the TGV Paris - Hendaye, i was a great experience.... Very interesting video, i like that sound... Congratulations Dashloc!!!! 5 étoiles.

[dashloc]

Thank you Topjaizkibel, nothing better than the song of synchron engines in electric loc !

[timh97sg1]

looooove it!

great!!!!

5

[dashloc]

Thanks Timh97sg1 :)

[razvanBV18]

Nice Video DashLoc :D i love it ... Great Job 5 *

[dashloc]

Thank you RazvanBV18 :)

[tudorXcorbul]

Forbidable! Absolutely awesome :D Nice video

[dashloc]

Thank you TudorXcorbul :)

[cattleman6420012000]

These are absolutely magnificent trains. I love travelling from Paris to Nice on TGVs.

magnifique !!

[Streetcar1743]

I see that in some videos, these engines can take a train and pull it at a speed of 300 mph. In Missouri here in the United States, our tracks are in rough shape and are too twisty to do speeds like that. If the U.S. had much straighter tracks and in much better shape, then the U.S. too could have something like a TGV service. Plus, it would really give the airlines a sharp decline in ridership and more ridership leaning towards rail travel.

[dashloc]

You mean 300 kmh ?

Maybe in the futur high speed trains and lines will passed the Atlantic ...?!

[armoricain]

Yes, dashloc, he meant 300 km/h, of course! I' ve lived in the U.S.A. for almost 25 years, I am from Brittany (Bretagne)originally, born in Brest in the Finistere. The United States would greatly benefit from a TRUE high-speed train like the magnificent TGV, because the distances are so huge. We do have the 'Acela' between Washington, DC, New-York and Boston that reaches a top speed of 135mph to NY and 150mph for a few miles in New-England, on tracks that twist and turn all the way...

[dashloc]

135 mph on classic tracks ? it's a nice speed !

Yes i like the acela, i found the design of the rems nice, especialy the light position in front of the cab :)

[TGVFanpage]

Really love that sound of TGV Duplex Engines ;-)

[MrDriverbus]

Merci pour ce voyage en cabine, 5 étoile !

[dashloc]

De rien MrDriverbus :)

[Nosteratees]

French engineering at its best. Formidable!

[Josiebenn]

Thanks, but I guess you mean on full "power", (foot to the foot plate), until cruising speed reached. Still a nice vid tho'. So it's 3.50 minutes to 300k/186mph roughly?

[dashloc]

Your welcome, yes i mean at full power, the 300kmh/186mph were reaches at 6:25.

[Josiebenn]

Interesting to note that the rising pitch of the sound (ergo acceleration) does not level out until about 3.50.

[dashloc]

Certainly because the electric engines were in full charge !

[dashloc]

Thank you Tchrust ;)

[cattleman6420012000]

This is fantastic. It is marvellous seeing the video from the driver's cab. Merci beaucoup.

[dashloc]

Your welcome Cattleman :)

[andyc225]

Merci beaucoup! 5*

[dashloc]

Avec plaisir :P

[pkpjazda]

5 stars :)

[dashloc]

Thanks Pkpjazda :)

[XxBec3509]

ver nice great bit of film 5stars

[dashloc]

Thank you XxBec3509

[Drewvinci]

i love that sound of that locomotive. Electric locmotives are better than EMUs to me.

[dashloc]

I agree ! :P

[singleadvance]

Oh gosh that traction motor whine would send me mad!

[dashloc]

Lol you just done for a big aspirin after this !!!

[dermitdemziel]

Better question: How long does it take to accelerate to 300?

[dashloc]

Yahy i had never count the time between O to 300 km.

On the LGV med high speed line, when you leave from Avignon TGV going to Aix en Provence TGV, the train start from O kmh to 320 kmh, on flat track it's about 22 km long, Dermitdemziel.

[triplegage]

TGV POS takes about 4 minutes and 30 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 300km/h

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

pretty sure it's going uphill for a while.

[dermitdemziel]

Nice video. How fast is the train going?

[dashloc]

300 kmh ! :P

[soundseeker63]

Wow that is a VERY steep looking climb at the start!! What sort of gradient is it?

Superb train, although that motor whine is very harsh on the ears at moderate speeds.

[dashloc]

It's a 3% or 3,5% upgrade, this famous noise in the cab come more from the transmission at full load than the engine himself !

[BiK04]

thats cool,makes me wanna go to France a ride it!

[dashloc]

Lol :P

[Modeltrainguy]

WOW! @_@ What a ride!

I KNOW I could do that for a living! It's a shame the US Government NEVER invested in HSR back in the early 80's.

The TGV beganin 1981. I remember first reading about it and wondering WHEN we will see similar trains here?

America SHOULD have been next!

Only now we have HSR with the Acela Express. It's NOT Cross Country as it was expected by many (myself included).

Sigh. "IF" only HSR were here...

[dashloc]

Yeap Modeltrainguy, don't forget that's builting high speed lines is very very expensive ! and passing throught a city and urban area isn't an easy job !

So politics makes choice ....

[apbrit2009]

some states have taken the initiative

CA voters passed a bill last election for the construction of a statewide HSR network

[Modeltrainguy]

Of course.

However, the VERY same HSR plan could have begun after the TGV opened in 1981, IN California, IN the early 80's. Neighboring states sign on.

Back then, America still said it's not feasble to build HSR here. Of course It WAS: Start building HSR, serving major locations & expand in the futue.

The HINT is in the video above.

1964: The Bullet Train began in Japan. France: The TGV in 1981.

President Reagan (1980-88) said "NO!"

2009: The "LARGEST" HSR is in North America.