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 ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has attended the launch of a new high-speed train made by engineering giant Alstom. The AGV (Automotrice Grande Vitesse) train will travel at up to 360km/h (224mph), ...

Alstom has market-leading high-speed rail expertise, from iconic train designs such as the TGV in France, Avelia Liberty in the USA and AGV in Italy, combined with 20 years’ experience working with ...

Alstom unveiled the latest high-speed Pendolino trains at its Savigliano plant in Italy, due to be delivered to UK rail operator Virgin Trains in the next few weeks. The company also took the wraps ...

PARIS (MarketWatch) -- Alstom's next generation AGV high-speed trains will consume 20% less energy than the trains of competitors, such as Bombardier BDRBF or Siemens SI, a spokesman for the French ...

President Nicolas Sarkozy helped cut the ribbon on the AGV, which stands for Automotice Grande Vitesse, or High-Speed Railcar-a bullet-train designed with a cruise speed of up to 360 kilometres per ...

Creator of the superfast TGV train, French engineering giant Alstom unveils on Tuesday a new-generation prototype: faster, cleaner, bigger -- and tailored especially for export. President Nicolas ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French government and Alstom have launched an attack on Eurostar’s decision to buy new trains from ...

French engineering firm Alstom unveiled its successor the the TGV today, the AGV. Standing for Automotrice Grande Vitesse, the train, which boasts an individual engine beneath each carriage, can ...

The Automotrice à Grande Vitesse, or AGV for short, showed its long, silver-and-black nose to the public for the first time on Tuesday. With French President Nicolas Sarkozy in attendance, Alstom ...

French engineering giant Alstom unveiled a new super-fast train on Tuesday which it claims will be quicker, cleaner and bigger than its Japanese and German rivals. President Nicolas Sarkozy helped cut ...