The AGV starts test runs at 360 km/h

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After four months of adjustments made on the speed ring
at the Velim rail testing centre in the Czech Republic, the
AGV has begun its first dynamic tests at 360 km/h, the
commercial speed for which it has been designed.

The test runs are to be performed on a
170-kilometre section of the Eastern high-speed line, between the
Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine stations, the same line on which
the world speed record of 574.8 km/h was set in April 2007 by
Alstom, SNCF and RFF. The runs will allow for validation of
Alstom's new very-high speed platform at the limits of its
commercial speed with a view to its future approval. In total
over the 12 nights of testing, close to 60 engineers from the
various industrial sites of Alstom Transport and Eurailtest Set
up in 1999 by French railways SNCF and the Paris mass transit
authority RATP, EurailTest markets a fully qualified
comprehensive technical testing service for rolling stock,
infrastructures and the environment. will be involved, and over
7,500 kilometres covered on board the AGV. The measurements and
data compiled thanks to the 4,000 sensors with which the trainset
is equipped will be transmitted and analyzed by the Alstom
engineering departments of Alstom, who will suggest the
adjustments and modifications necessary for the train to be
validated.