'All Aboard' France's Artouste Express, France's highest-altitude train
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Eighty years ago the Artouste train in the French Pyrenees transported workers and materiel to build a dam at 2000 meters (6500 feet) altitude, but today it ferries tourists for a sometimes hair-raising ride along one of Europe's highest rail lines.
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Thalys promises gaming and video-on-demand too Thalys will introduce broadband internet access to passengers travelling between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne by 2008, the company announced today. It will be the first international high-speed train to provide this service across European borders.â¦
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France's President Sarkozy signs a deal in Morocco to build a high-speed rail link between Tangiers and Marrakesh.
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Linus Gerdemann won the stage and took over the race leaderâs yellow jersey with a stunning ride over the Col de la ColombiÃ¨re in the French Alps on Saturday.
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French President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated a new bridge, hailed as the tallest in the world. The bridge, celebrated as a work of art and an object of French national pride, is 1,125 feet high, making it taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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A Sherpa guide who sprinted up Mount Everest in eight hours and 10 minutes will keep the record for the fastest climb up the world's highest peak, Nepalese mountaineering officials said Thursday.
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AT Pounds 135,000 for a 90-minute journey, it will be beyond the reach of all but the very rich. But those who can afford a ticket will enjoy a truly out-ofthis world experience.
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A Eurostar train shattered the record for the quickest rail journey between Paris and London on Tuesday, using a new high-speed track that shaved some 30 minutes off the previous fastest time.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees
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MILLAU, France French citizens and officials are celebrating a roadway bridge considered to be the world&#39;s tallest. One of the Millau bridge&#39;s pillars reaches more than eleven-hundred feet into the air, making
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Air France becomes the latest major airline to raise ticket prices in response to higher fuel costs.
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The world's highest traffic bridge is to be inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.
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LONDON, England -- Eurostar, the high-speed passenger services, is celebrating 10 years of service between Britain, France and Belgium.
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President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated the world's highest bridge, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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France's Alstom unveils a new high-speed AGV train which should travel at 360km/h (224mph).
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Ed Viesturs has summitted 13 of the 14 highest mountains in the world without the aid of supplemental oxygen. The climber excels where others perish thanks to his alpine skills, mental focus, and near freakish physiology.
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Jacques Chirac, the French president, opened the bridge which is in the Tarn Valley in the south west of the country. The four-lane bridge is taller than the Eiffel Tower at 343 metres high and 1.5 miles long.