 A Eurostar (TGV) train broke the record for the longest non-stop high-speed international journey on 17 May 2006 carrying the cast and filmmakers of "The Da Vinci Code" from London to Cannes for the Cannes Film Festival.The journey took 7 hours 25 minutes on an average speed of .The fastest single long distance run on the TGV was done by a TGV Réseau train from Calais-Frethun to Marseille (1067.2 km, 663 mi) in 3 hours 29 minutes at a speed of for the inauguration of the LGV Méditerranée on 26 May 2001.