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their TGV was basically designed by British Rail, they own a large part of several franchises, as do Deutsche Bahn
Basically, SNCF through its Kelios subsidiary runs a whole load of the network
state-owned rail operators from France Germany, Holland and Italy run approximately 90% of the UK rail network
the TGV is based on the technology employed in the APT.
This was sold by the British Government to Alsthom and made the difference between the TGV002 and TGV001, some of the engineers from the APT project actually worked on the SNCF team to create the TGV as they had already solved a lot of the issues, and in the spirit of the Concorde agreement, there was a lot of co-operation on the project.
the Pendolino system in class 390 is directly based on patents sold to FIAT (who merged them into Alstholm)
For who are saying "I'm sorry, I haven't a clue." when asked about the above question:
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