Mon Dieu! Now Trains Fly!!!

I have a fascination for trains and prefer rail travel to flying. Oh!…But now the trains have begun to fly!!! Goodbye to slow and gentle art of travel…?

To read the thrilling/’terrifying’ first-person account by a journalist on board the French TGV train that hit 357mph yesterday (and created a world record), please click here…

“At 357mph, it was impossible to focus on anything within a mile of the train. Even distant hilltop villages flashed past in a second.

“We were travelling twice as fast as a passenger jet at the point of take-off, but there were no seatbelts. At that speed, they wouldn’t have saved us anyway…”