Trans-Europ-express train

Trans Europ Express is also the title of a film of the French realizer Alain Robbe-Grillet (1966).

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---- The Trans-Europ-Express train ( TEE ) were passenger trains European of prestige, rapids and exclusively of 1st class, set up starting from 1957 and disappeared little by little starting from the medium from the Années 1980.

Intended for the beginning to counter the first attacks of the Air transport on the market segment of the Trip business, the Trans-Europ-Express train were exclusively trains:
- of day,
- rapids (frontier checks simplified, even carried out on the way),
- exclusively in First class with special supplement,
- offering a restoration of quality,
- circulating exclusively on international courses,
- laying out, in certain cases, of specific services on board (secretariat, hairdresser, shop on board " Mistral" Paris-Nice).

Initially, in order to free itself from the electric borders separating the European rail networks, the TEE were composed of material motorized diesel specialized, generally suited at the limiting speed of 140 km/h, and having for some (oars VT611 of dB for example) the Climatisation. Starting from 1964, some of these trains were assured:

in electric motorized material of Swiss design ;

in towed material, in certain cases by electric engines polycourant (BB 26000 the SNCF, thereafter become BB 30000, then DC 40100 the SNCF, 15,16 and 18 SNCB, 184 and 181 dB).

With the summer service of the May 30th 1965, the Mistral, Paris-Nice, was allowed in the TEE category, and with its continuation of other large trains of interior service (Capitole, Aquitaine, Rheinpfeil, etc). The last TEE created was the Jules Verne, Paris-Nantes, with the winter service 1980/81.
From beginning of the year 80, the TEE were gradually replaced by InterCités (IC), opened with the second class. Starting from the summer service of the May 31st 1987, those of these InterCités which had an international course were converted into EuroCity (EC.). However, starting from 1993, and until the final replacement of the traditional trains by TGV on the courses Paris - Brussels and Paris - Amsterdam, the label TEE was re-used on these relations to replace the EuroCity label, but with maintenance of the second class in the trains concerned.
Among the towed materials emblematic engaged on these trains, one can quote:

the material TEE of dB, and in particular the cars Vista Dome included in the Sixties and Seventies in the composition of Rheingold (Amsterdam-Coire);

the materials TEE PBA (Paris - Brussels - Amsterdam), Mistral 69 and Great comfort of the SNCF;

the material Great Comfort of FS;

the material Talgo IIIRD used on the Talgo Catalan.

The TEE, as trains of prestige of the European rail networks, fully used the capacities speed of the lines which they traversed, and were generally the first to be profited from the raisings speed, which were even sometimes carried out for them. Thus, the May 30th 1965, the speed of the Mistral it was increased to 160 km/h. As of 1967, Capitole rolls to 200 km/h between Aubrais and Vierzon. Speed limit on the line Paris - Bordeaux was raised to 200 km/h with the summer service of the May 23rd 1971 to allow the TEE Aquitaine and the Standard to cut down distance (581 km) in 4 hours right without stop (thereafter, their walk was still accelerated, with a layout in 3:50). In the same way, in Germany, the TEE Blauer Enzian was traced to 200 km/h between Augsburg and Munich starting from end of the year 60.

List TEE

the numbers and the routes of the lines TEE correspond to the last day of each service.

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