
TGV Duplex
The TGV Duplex is an electric unit from France in Train Sim World. It comes with 1 route, and another DLC brings it to 3 more.
Picture: LGV Méditerranée: Marseille - Avignon, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
Comes with
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: TGV Duplex, TGV Duplex 200 CM.
In these DLCs: LGV Méditerranée: Marseille - Avignon.
Official manual: LGV Méditerranée: Marseille - Avignon.
From Dovetail's store page
- 200 Series TGV Duplex EMU in SNCF Carmillon livery
The real thing
A French double-deck high-speed train built by Alstom for SNCF, the first TGV with two-level carriages, seating 508 passengers. 160 trainsets were built from 1995, and it has become one of the TGV fleet's workhorses.
- Built by: Alstom (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1995–2023 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 160 trainsets total: 89 Duplex, 19 Réseau Duplex/POS Duplex, 50 Dasye (Wikipedia)
- Operators: SNCF (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 320 km/h (199 mph) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′+2′(2)′(2)′(2)′(2)′(2)′(2)′(2)′2′+Bo′Bo′ (Wikipedia)
- Formation: 2 power cars + 8 passenger cars (Wikipedia)
- Safety systems: Duplex: TVM-430, KVB, Dasye: ERTMS, TVM-430, KVB (Wikipedia)
Photo: Cheng-en Cheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article TGV Duplex and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.