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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The most annoying thing about tweeting about 🚅?

Trainsplaining

It's not ill intentioned, but don't you think that if I am writing about night trains in Europe... I might have encountered ÖBB's NightJets already? 🤔
And yes, I don't work in the rail industry. There are loads of technical things I do not know, and cannot know, and I am super happy to learn those - and loads of nerds help me enormously with that - dozens of those people are on Twitter and they're ace
But as far as any lay person goes then I think I have a pretty good understanding of what is going on... much of it has been written up here as well:
jonworth.eu/category/trans…
And also given that political communication and EU politics are my fields of expertise, it ought to surely be a fair assumption that when it comes to the politics of rail in the European Union I might be able to understand it

/rant over

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17 Feb
Earlier today I cast an eye over the communication of the "European Year of Rail"

It's *this year* folks, just in case you were not aware

There's a chirpy video (oddly with a load of Russian trains) and a nastily Photoshopped ICE on a dedicated website

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There's a hashtag too! #euyearofrail

@unsereOEBB even decorated a train with it - and @MartinSelmayr launched it

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Is there a list of *all* the infra projects needed to make #Deutschlandtakt by 2030 a reality? I am struggling a bit... Do you know @Koelschlenny @elba013 @vorortanleiter @Schienenallianz @bladewing678 ?
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But these are surely not all *necessary* (although they're all being planned)
This explains why new infra is needed, but doesn't say *what* exactly
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As arguments about the interplay between the NI Protocol and TCA rumble on, it's time for a kind of typology of solutions

These are:
1️⃣ Turn-a-blind-eye
2️⃣ All-UK
3️⃣ Build-the-infrastructure

A quick 🧵
1️⃣ Turn-a-blind-eye

Example:
"Gove asks EU for extension of NI Protocol grace periods to 2023"
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Basically everything agreed is too hard to do, grace periods to be extended long beyond April

Leads to legal uncertainty
Typical quote:
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This tweet about night trains in 🇫🇷 gained quite some traction this morning

And sure, night trains are *good*

But we need to be a little more clear headed than that

A 🧵

First of all, night trains only really make sense for routes that most people would not try to accomplish in the daytime by 🚅

Paris-Brive, Paris-Clermont F, Lyon-Toulouse are all under 5 hours by daytime train. These will not work as night train connections
Second, that you *could* theoretically run a train at night does not necessarily mean you should

Paris-Albi for example is 7 hours daytime train, because the infra is lousy. And you can drive it faster
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First they came for the 🐟

And John Redwood said the 🇬🇧 fishing industry would adjust
Then they came for the 🐖 farmers and 🐷 exports

And they said don't worry, it's just teething problems
Next they came for the 🦪 exporters

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I've been pointed towards this by @hanskundnani by @MaryFitzger - entitled "What does it mean to be “pro-European” today?" While there is something to it, I think it mixes up different terms, and hence it's not quite right... This 🧵 will explain

newstatesman.com/world/2021/02/…

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I am also of course aware the title might not be Hans's choice...

The first issue is a basic one: to be a European, or to be a pro-European, are not - in my view - the same things

2/13
I will happily call myself a European, but not a pro-European (although plenty would describe *me* as the latter), because pro-European leads us to looking at the European Union in terms of more or less of it, rather than the individual policy outcomes it can produce

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