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On the railways the Saar can increasingly fulfil its longstanding role as a bridge between Germany and France. The linking of the two countries, which started symbolically in 1952 and made comfortable progress in 1970 with the Goethe Trans-European Express,became a reality with the opening of the highspeed ICE/TGV rail link between Frankfurt and Paris in June 2007.
1952
State Chancellery Saarland
Saarbrücken, Germany
On the railways the Saar can increasingly fulfil its longstanding role as a bridge between Germany and France. The linking of the two countries, which started symbolically in 1952 and made comfortable progress in 1970 with the Goethe Trans-European Express,became a reality with the opening of the highspeed ICE/TGV rail link between Frankfurt and Paris in June 2007.
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- Title: On the railways the Saar can increasingly fulfil its longstanding role as a bridge between Germany and France. The linking of the two countries, which started symbolically in 1952 and made comfortable progress in 1970 with the Goethe Trans-European Express,became a reality with the opening of the highspeed ICE/TGV rail link between Frankfurt and Paris in June 2007.
- Date: 1952
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