We don’t need that seriously. We need railroad maintenance, more trains and more drivers.
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Even outside of major airports, luggage space is a pain for TGV
Indeed, I noticed this problem with German ICE trains as well.
The term German ICE trains just have a jarring sound to me…
Even the FEX im Berlin lacks space for luggage and it’s a train service explicitly created for the new airport.
Endemic everywhere I’ve used HSR. It’s a pity, really. (Though at least some of them will provide a luggage car that you can put larger or higher-count luggage in.)
320km/h? Welcome to one generation behind, France!
They were the first movers with modern tracks, and now those older tracks hold them back. The TGV itself can go much faster in theory.
That’s the case in any country with high speed rail: tracks are the devils of the details.
I mean in the end, especially with a country as small as France, there’s not a whole lot of difference between 320 and 350km/h. (I mean going one end of China to the other and that difference adds up, but not one end of France to the other.)
But … what’s stopping them from making the track changes needed?
The cost and the downtime.
Too expensive to rebuild half the tracks to allow higher speeds.
