Ironically, during the very same time in which British rail was dismantled, international rail technology was on the rise, and central Europe as well as Japan had vastly overtaken Britain in terms of passenger freight in both speed and punctuality of its services. Stored in a warehouse amongst other relics of the industry here, this dusty cockpit of a French TGV high speed rail train once shared the world speed record at 320mph in 1992, but was dismantled from the remainder of its carriage 20 years later and never used again.