That's a rainy day which provide, with the speed, a water projections caused by the rear pantograph on the catenary. Like the weather is sad. Bye bye Patrick. One of last run to Lyon where Patrick will be exposed in the station during few days. Delivered at the end of 1976, Patrick make one of the latest trip to Lyon and come back to Paris after a life about more 13000000 km ! You can see the special livery applied and that summarizes all the livery carried by the train during its 40 years of runs on the French lines; Orange for the beginning (from 1979), blue, grey and white for the middle time (from 1990), and grey, black and red for the end of life (from 2011).
Pictures of French high speed conquest... With all kind of locomotives, trains and infrastructures that participated to improve rail speed and makes the best world records.
