(Agence France-Presse circulated the following article on February 15.)
PARIS — France’s high-speed train, the TGV, broke its own record in a test this week in which it reached 334 miles an hour, the newspaper Le Parisien reported. The test, before an official attempt to set a new rail record scheduled for April, was run on a stretch of line connecting Paris and Strasbourg. The previous record, set in 1990, was 320 m.p.h. The average speed for passenger-carrying TGVs is 186 m.p.h.