From: marc.gr.vandyck@invalid.skynet.be   
      
   Glen Labah submitted this idea :   
   >   
   > So, the gas turbine prototype set was also used as a test bed for   
   > developing all of those details on the eventual electric version.   
      
   Not really. The electric equipment (pantos, motors and transmissions)   
   used on the first generation TGVs were developped and tested on the   
   Z7001 single-car EMU (codenamed Zebulon), a heavy transformation of   
   the Z7115.   
      
   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9bulon_(SNCF)   
   http://www.trains-europe.fr/sncf/automoteurs/z7001.htm   
      
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