Just a heads up. On Wednesday, January 28, SNCF begins the sale for tickets with travel dates from March 30 to July 3. If you want to grab some cheap tickets, you might want to take a peek. 🚂 #trainstr

Next step, May, 1990 By reaching 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph), France officially broke the 500 km/h wall for the first time with a conventional train. TGV Atlantique, unit 325 View quoted note →

From December, Italy and Germany will be linked by direct high-speed Frecciarossa trains, between Rome & Milan to Munich. It's possible because of a partnership between Trenitalia, Deutsche Bahn and Österreichische Bundesbahnen (because it has to pass through Austria). Milan <-> Munich ~6:30h Rome <-> Munich ~8:30h Future plans include extensions to Berlin and Naples by 2028, and there are discussions for Italy to Vienna too, but nothing concrete yet.

Exactly fifty years ago, on January 21, 1976, the Concorde made its first commercial flight. The Air France Concorde flew from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, via Dakar, while the British Airways Concorde flew from London to Bahrain. (Video: its last departure from JFK)