towards electric traction and put a stop to new orders of T 2000s, ending production at thirteen sets.

By the late 1970s T 2000 service on the Nantes-Bordeaux line stopped and all T 2000s were permanently reassigned to the Lyon-Nantes route, an unelectrified trunk line with severe gradients where turbine traction could once again demonstrate its potential.

With the electrification of the Lyon-Strasbourg (1995) and Paris-Caen-Cherbourg routes (June 1996) and the switch to regular Diesel

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