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This page will collect some of the hundreds of SNCF TGV pictures from our picture providers. We will start the documentation with the TGV-PSE units. 
   
Click the picture to see the larger version of it (if available). 
   

TGV-PSE Online...

Above the original colored TGV-PSE double unit somewhere south of Paris in 1987. Picture by Pekka Siiskonen. Sorry, no larger original available for the moment.  
    


Another view of the sleek orange TGV-PSE in Lyon, south of Paris, in 1983. Picture by Pekka Siiskonen. Sorry, no larger original available for the moment. 

   

TGV-PSE's at Gare de Lyon in Paris...    

Here you see the both generations of the TGV trains in the SNCF's newer gray and blue livery. The TGV-PSE (TGV Paris Sud-Est) was originally painted like the one on the pictures above, but since the year 2000 all have been painted with the new colors and refurbished inside to meet the demand of the comfort loving French passengers. On the left TGV-Duplex number 208 is one of the first newer generation double decked units. Picture by John McKey 2004.  
   

Just arrived from Nice on the french Riviera this TGV-PSE unit number 05 glided extremely slowly the last 200 meters through the rain to the bay at the Paris Gare de Lyon. Picture by John McKey 2002. 

Gare du Nord is also the nightly resting place for this TGV-PSE unit number 12. Picture by John McKey 2002. 


SNCF TGV-PSE's outside France 


The TGV-PSE unit number 117 is shown here in Switzerland, probably in Zurich. To cross the mountains to Switzerland required SNCF, co-owner of the train with the SBB/CFF of Switzerland to install triple electric systems for certain TGV units. Picture by Ilkka Siissalo 200X. 
 
This is all of the TGV-PSE's for the time, more pictures will be added later. Please see other TGV pages to see more pictures of all types!
    
 


Created for 4rail.net by John McKey. Pictures by Pekka Siiskonen, Ilkka Siissalo, Sanna Siissalo and John McKey.



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