rail 🦊ΘΔ<p>Not very widely known funfact: twice during the 90s TGV trains arrived in Poland.</p><p>The first time it happened in 1991 when the record-braking TGV Atlantique unit 325 (the one that ran 515 km/h) was brought to Warsaw for a HSR conference. It couldn't run on its own because of incompatible power mode.</p><p>Then in 1995, for the 150th anniversary of railways in Poland, courtesy of SNCF and Alstom PKP borrowed TGV Réseau 4522 (which was not in service yet).<br>Because it was multi-mode and supported 3kV DC, it ran a bunch of special rides between 12 and 19 June 1995, stopping in multiple cities and attracting a lot of interest.</p><p>The train was operated by the SNCF staff, with Polish crew present in the driver's cabin.</p><p><a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>train</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railway</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/railways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railways</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poland</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/tgv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tgv</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/sncf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sncf</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/pkp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkp</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/railinfodump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railinfodump</span></a></p>