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Meet TGV 01, a.k.a. Patrick, French's first TGV that went in service in 1978.
It's the first that went in commercial service, but prior that it was also the testing machine.
It ran at 300km/h (260 the early years).
Patrick retired only last year (last commercial trip in late 2019 and made a "farewell tour" in February 2010), after 40 years of service and 13 million kilometres (13 gigametres?)
Patrick will end up in a museum
Say something nice about Patrick