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>The TGV was the basis of the Spanish AVE Well, the AVE 103 is based on the Velaro platform which most certainly has powered axles on every car, as you would e
by iSnow 12y ago
>The TGV was the basis of the Spanish AVE
Well, the AVE 103 is based on the Velaro platform which most certainly has powered axles on every car, as you would expect from a German train. The same goes for the Russian Sapsan, the Chinese CRH3 and the German ICE3
- tanzam75 12y agoThe AVE 103 may be based on the Velaro, but the AVE 100, 102, and 112 are based on the TGV, which has non-powered passenger cars. The point is that non-powered passenger cars do not automatically indicate a "primitive" rail system, as the previous commenter seemed to think. Some countries have made one choice, other countries have made the other choice, and some countries even use both technologies simultaneously. And that's just high-speed trainsets. It's quite common to find non-powered passenger cars on conventional trains as well.