TGV Synthwave: a mix for the most aesthetically 80s train 

The individual songs used for this and a custom TGV album cover can be found here! ru-vid.com/group/PLPpbDsYV8nKWvibJZm4A4GtmNBGJZphyq

the one dislike is from airfrance

France: "While you were reeling from the Beeching cuts , I was studying the grade" UK: "... what the bloody hell are you talking abou-" France: "S U D - E S T T I M E"

I strongly approve of this.

"If TGV so good, why no-" 4:50 "LET'S GOOOOOO"

It still looks modern nowadays

For those who were wondering what that was at 0:40, the TGV was first designed as a gas-turbine powered train similar to the Turboliner. The 70's and the oil crisis drove them in the right direction, considering most of the nation runs on nuclear power. It was sad to see the 1981 stock retire last year, at least SNCF painted one up with the old livery for the event.

Les Américains sont dans les commentaires en train de chialer sur le North East Corridor mais Imagine si le Canada avait au moins une ligne de train interurbain qui était électrique :(

Americans: High speed rail, in this economy? Impossible French: MAIS SI C'EST POSSIBLE AVEC LA CARTE KIWI

I’m jealous of the French. If only we weren’t so obsessed with our cars and had the poltical power to fix the northeast corridor

3:20 Can you imagine, Jaeger-LeCoultre a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer literally built the speed-o-meter. How aesthetic isn't that?

This feels like a mustard video

Gonna download, record to VHS and play on my VCR

Timeless design... TGV sud Est looked best in Orange 👍🏻

Now there's a high speed train that feels, looks, and is fast and classy; thank you for sharing

Me, a french guy looking through your channel : "Oh boy, didn't know we were that whorshiped"

I'm a 90s kid, when I was growing up the orange livery definitely felt dated, especially when the silver livery of TGV Atlantique came around. I liked the new ones much better back then. But now, while the orange livery still feels very much late 70s, I absolutely love it! It's just a fantastic design that made history, it really is iconic. The music is really great too!

These things look like spaceships right from the future. Trains are most efficient mode of mass transport ever made. This is high tech that actually is consumer friendly, ecologically friendly and economically feasible.

Me watching this several times within a few days is responsible for flooding me with SNCF and TGV video recommendations and I ain't complaining. Never seen a more aesthetic train than the 1st gen TGV.

Ａｌｓｔｏｍ ｗａｖｅ

To hell with planes and space travel, an extensive and reliable train network is the greatest example of forward thinking and long term planning of humanity. If a country has electrified, high speed and extensive train network, they have done it. Where I live, we have 2 of 3 but that is good enough.

This is epic. I'm not generally an 80s fan, but this was one of the coolest things to come from that decade.

This is the eightiest eighties that ever eightied.

The TGV is awesome. I remember going from Zurich to Paris in one afternoon at 300km/h. The train was showing its age, but still a comfortable and fast ride. Also quite affordable. Even if I would have a car, I would choose the TGV if possible, because it is so much faster and so much more relaxing. Taking a nap at 300km/h is only possible in a train or a plane. Definitely not in a car. Its quite sad how much "high speed" rail sucks in Germany in comparison. We have nice Inter City Express (ICE) trains, but the rail network is more than 100 years old and falling apart to the point where trains designed for 300km/h can only go 80km/h.

RU-vid at 3:00 AM : Me: its not what i was serching for but im very thankfull for recomending me this

I'm obsessed with this video.

The next Urbanist video should be out by the end of next week btw!

Wooaaaaa the scene with the plane at 11:03 .... absolutely EPIC ! Much better than a helicopter rising above the horizon with a sunset and palm trees in the background if you ask me :D

This is some quality Giscard Punk

I don't know why, but this type of videos makes me unreasonably happy I love trains, they're wholesome

This music is so fitting for the worlds best Highspeed train. YEAH, I SAID. Japan fight me! lol

i took the TGV to go from Paris to Marseille last month, i went to the restaurant wagon, there were an old boomer who tried for 15 minutes to tell me how much the Giscard were cooler than Macron and also that thing were simpler with the MINITEL...that realy was the 80s experience XD

The TGV is 80's AF, I do remember being in awe of many such things when vising France as a child, it made the UK look very backwards. Fortunately we seem to have got the message now and are catching up. I think the French do well because they somehow manage to transcend all the childish politics, recognizing that effective infrastructure is a common good no mater your political outlook, and not some kind of communist plot.

for the record Electric Groove has been living rent-free in my head for weeks now and this video, solely, is responsible for that

En tant que francais ayant pris plusieurs fois le TGV ce n'est qu'en lisant les commentaires anglophones que je réalise maintenant que lire un livre tranquillement à plus de 300km/heures sans ressentir la vitesse ne va pas en fait de soi (merci Internet pour cette leçon de philosophie).

Orange/white/dark is the aestethic i need in my life

The fastest mail train ever seen.

Nuclear-powered train of the future, France can be damn impressive sometimes, this and the union culture being so strong.

The US needs a SNCF

I remember seeing in southern France the classy and "shiny metal" style of the TGV next to the more 70's chic and "stainless steel" style of the EX-TEE "Catalan Talgo"... It was quite a cool time!

I was in France recently, and I was so happy that I was able to take the TGV for the first time. It was great.

Right, I need this on cassette to play in my Citroen BX

I remember my first TGV trip between Paris and Lyon (and back): back in 1981, when the line opened, I accompanied my young son and his classmates and teacher to this science/technology/history trip through the French countryside (and Burgundy vineyards) down to the Capital of Gauls' at "only" 260km/h (the average speed then at the opening of the very first leg of the first French very high speed line). Now, Marseille is 3hrs from Paris, London 2hrs, Brussels 1hr and the trains with their double deck coaches ride at 320km/h...

Fun Fact: The TGV is so good that it was used in official CAHSR renderings

This video's vibes are impeccable

7:22 The train looks so beautiful.

Thanks for this video, as a frequent TGV user, I absolutely love that 300 km/h feel when going back to my western hometown in the sunset.

I never had the urge to construct trains in high quantities until this

Damn you made Miami Nights 1984 and Lazerhawk even cooler, didn't think it was even possible

Les américains sont comme ça: quand ils aiment ils aiment

90s ICE and X2000 on the NEC mix next?

I only traveled in a Orange TGV set once in the late 90s on a normal piece of track. It felt very dated back then and they where definitely worn out by that time. But goddamn what a style it was

Perfect video to watch after having traveled through France west to east with a TGV

The TGV is pure class!

While the TGV Sud-Est sets entered service in the 1980s, I think they (not to mention the turbo prototype shown at the start) are unquestionably a 1970s aesthetic design. The ETR 450 Pendolinos in Italy were also 1970s design. For some quintessential 1980s train design, try the Shinkansen Series 100, the ICE-V prototype in Germany, or the SBB Re 4/4 IV locos from Switzerland. Back to the 1970s, there was an aesthetically very pleasing train that should have shown the future to Europe but it took longer: the Class 403 in Germany. This semi-high-speed train had distributed traction like Shinkansens, also like modern Siemens Velaros, AnsaldoBreda/Bombardier Zefiros or CAF Oarises in Europe, but unlike the tractor head concept of all TGVs and the first generation of ICE trains in Germany and ETR 500 trains in Italy. One problem with the Class 403 was that it was too short (four cars long, built when intercity trains were stupidly first-class-only). Another was that it was built with one of the many failed tilting technologies (the tilting itself worked but people felt ill), limiting carbody cross-section. The distributed traction itself wasn't very maintenance-friendly back in the day, although it was still manageable for the Class 403. (Still, in contrast to Shinkansens where only end cars are trailers, most European distributed-traction high-speed trains only have half of their axles driven, not all like the 403.)

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Banger video. Very based

I live in Rotterdam and enjoyed each time this red beauty departed or arrive at central station. Never had the joy of boarding these models though and seeing this video makes me regret that.

Hyper fit absolutely perfect. Synthwave + 80s high speed trains are a total VIBE

That fourth song is FUCKING FIRE, and I love the ** A E S T H E T I C ** in this video

Thank you for this! This whole video fills me with optimism that solutions are already there and that some day, hopefully, we will come to our minds, and start using sexy trains that blasts 80s wave all day and night! It's the future we deserve!

THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

The Intercity 225 the ICE the X 2000 and the E 414 look 80s too.

This is one of the train that made me love them. I always looked at our old Polish trains and emus being slow and rusted, and having day long delays and the there was this French rocket! And you managed to mix ot with 80 music!

TGV, best thing to come out of france since... uhhhh

3:05 this is my favourite high speed train clip i think ever

Superbe compilation, qui met bien en valeur cette magnifique prouesse technologique qu'est le TGV, tellement en avance sur son temps !

Absolutely LOVE THIS, I wish there was one for VIA Rail and their LRC and Turbo Train, one day I may make something like it. Absolutely love this video, keep up the amazing work!!

9:42 "I'm gonna do what I call the Pro Gamer Move"

This gotta be the best AMV i've ever seen on youtube. Instant sub.

The retro TGV Orange still looks so good to this day! I wish they still used it!

My fellow Americans, even though I have nothing to do with France but know someone who was born there, am now declaring it to be TGV Thursday, to complement F40 Friday, Mile Long Freight Monday, and Trolley Tuesday.

First TGV , even today looks great!

You literally embody my entire passion with urban design, with the Synthwave and everything. 😅

these project are those you dream of working on

Source videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OxlH5zvnBZQ.html - Impressions TGV (1981); centre audiovisuel SNCF ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fV2ctSG0dFQ.html - Opération TGV 100 (1981); centre audiovisuel SNCF ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gHqZ6PjZ7vo.html - TGV an 1 (1982); centre audiovisuel SNCF

Next vid: Shinkansen Citypop???

Is there a Japan Rail City Pop mix? I would love that xD EDIT: Nvm, found the shinkansen city pop. Alan you are amazing!

Americans before the video : OK, what's so great about that train when you have planes ? Americans after the video : ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIEEEEE

I'm honestly a little gutted I won't have the chance to ride the 1981 stock. It was so cool.

As a kid, I had a miniature model of that orange TGV. I still think it is the best looking train to this day. I wish I knew where the hell I put it though...

I had a Lima model of the TGV, I loved it so much! Music goes great with nostalgia

This is hot.

aaah, TGVawe: Wrong Line, luw it.

There are a lot of things I have heard about the French, but I am very jealous as an American of the tgv

This really hits for North Americans because it’s retro futurism but not science fiction. It’s the past for Europe but looks futuristic to us 🫠🫠

I listen to this almost every day lol...hope you make more!

This video is objectively great!

Everything about this is absolutely beautiful! We need another synthwave mix like this Alan.

10:45 - 12:30 probably the best part. This perfectly sums up Giscard Punk

This makes me wanna wear acid washed jeans and a geo shape patterned windbreaker while riding an orange, french train and listen to Eurythmics on a Walkman!

Incredible video ! And this train is a legend

What a beautiful mix of TGV and music.

You know you've made it when you get a sub genre of synth mix named after you on YT.

the TGV sud est set 16 is actually entirely preserved sadely all tgv sud est and atlantique will be scrapped even if they are still in good conditions for export as second hand

TGV is absolutely great, don't get me wrong. However, over the last decades high speed lines have been getting all the attention (and the money) from politicians, while regular trains were being neglected. Politicians have only seen the future of trains in France as TGV everywhere, even though it was unrealistic. They have seen trains as "planes on wheels" which link important cities very quickly, and they haven't cared about everything inbetween. Now we have a lot of high speed line, some of which loosing tons of money because they were built on political grounds, not rational ones. At the same time we are closing regular lines because we don't have the money to repaire the tracks.

this is fantastic! fits so well!

06:01 12:20 VITESSE LIMITE - 260 KM/H

How can you not be proud of France? 1000+ years of greatness

This mix goes way harder than I thought it would, I love it!