New horizons for Alstom high-speed trains
Alstom says its new generation of high-speed trains - the single-deck Avelia Liberty for Amtrak and the double-deck Avelia Horizon for SNCF - will raise the bar for high-speed train design in terms of acquisition cost, maintenance, energy consumption and capacity. While these trains retain the hallmarks of SNCF’s iconic TGV, they are completely new designs, as David Briginshaw discovers.