Re: TGV record attempt live on BBC News 24 now

On 4 Apr, 00:28, Andrew <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris Tolley wrote:
Mike Roebuck wrote:

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 12:34:58 +0100, Ar <Ar@::1.t> wrote:

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:14:14 +0100, Ben scribed:

Ben wrote:
They keep dipping in and out with a few minutes of live pictures.
Just hit 566km/h and still increasing when they cut back to some other news.
I SO wished I knew they were going to broadcast this live, I just
switched over to France24 (on satellite tv) and they were showing it.
Arrrhhhhhhhhhh!

Hope some broadcaster shows the whole thing again.

578.4Km/h..... wow!
574.8 km/h

but still wow!

Merveilleux!

I read that the line tension was increased to 31kV for the run.
Interesting to see the way certain things can be pushed.

More like OHL voltage. Bad wording by whatever news agency wrote that one.


Is "tension" French for voltage?

Even in English, "high tension" is (or at least used to be) synonymous
with "high voltage".


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