Okay, so France's first-ever 200 km/h section being Orléans-Vierzon as part of a Paris-Toulouse connection is some irony, yeah, but… Did SNCF really find direct connections to Les Sables-d'Olonne, some presumably vacation town on the Atlantic coast, so important that they ran TGVs *hauled by diesel locos* there for a few years before electrifying the branch? (So says French Wikipedia) cc @bovine3dom@masto.ai #SNCF #France #rail #bahnbubble