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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Starting at 14:00 CET the Berlin Senat is releasing the results of its night trains study at a webinar - all the details here - inc. dial in link:
pro-bahn-berlin.de/dateien/presse…

I'll tweet about it using the tag #NightTrainsBerlin
I am making a brief presentation towards the end of the event. @Frodlund from @EUpassengers, @ElmervBuuren from @EuropeanSlpr and Kurt Bauer from ÖBB are among the other speakers
My slides, and a lot of workings and maps are here:
bit.ly/BerlinNightTra…

My take on what night trains could run to/from Berlin is here:
trainsforeurope.eu/nighttrainsber…

And what Germany could do to address the issues here:
trainsforeurope.eu/what-germany-n…
I'm pretty sure everything is on the record, and so I will also tweet out anything that I consider significant

There's also of course an elephant in the room: Deutsche Bahn *isn't* presenting... 🤦‍♂️

Anyway, more from 14:00 onwards!

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Feb 9
It's pretty extraordinary to get *so much* wrong in a 3 tweet thread

1️⃣ PAC "quite thin" - given there was no complete impact assessment on the deal he negotiated this is an interesting accusation
2️⃣ "EU's refusal in 2020 to negotiate an SPS equivalence process" - EU made it clear all along that this was a non-starter. You cannot keep rolling this one out over and over - you stated in 2021 "Britain has just become a fully independent country again"
3️⃣ "the new inward customs processes we brought in on 1 January.

I wouldn't have done this but I lost the internal argument"

So you were fine to not do something that was agreed in the Deal *you* negotiated? And you're washing your hands of that?

Are you for real?
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Feb 6
Dreary grey weekends in Berlin mean more wanderlust... I've now planned all the bike legs of my #CrossBorderRail trip for this summer - where there is no train, or infrastructure doesn't exist any more, I will cycle rather than take the train

Explained 👇
jonworth.eu/crossborderrai…
Komoot is much better for bike trip planning than Google, so all the routes are listed here in Komoot 👇
komoot.de/user/189774755…

The good news: I've found a way to do Kulata 🇧🇬 - Sidirokastro 🇬🇷 by bike instead of needing a taxi!
The less good news: Suwalki 🇵🇱 - Marijampolė 🇱🇹 is a complete pain. Even bus schedules here are horrible (v early morning), and were I to cycle it's more than 80km... Do I want to risk that on a Birdy folding bike on rural lanes?
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Jan 27
So thanks to excellent feedback from @DavidHerdson @leonardocarella @tomwalkr @EuropeanRover there is now a new version of the Does Johnson Survive? Diagram - version 2.0.0
What's changed?

Essentially, on reflection, it strikes me as implausible that there cannot be something new when the report comes out - either *in* the report, or through some further leak

And version 1.0.0 of the diagram did not cover that adequately

Diagram re-worked on that
Some additional thinking about how the 54 MPs might be composed helped here too

As ever: thoughtful feedback is *so very welcome* - it helps these diagrams improve!
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Jan 27
OK

🥁

It's the one you've been waiting for!

The Does Johnson Survive? Diagram, version 1.0.0
After @alexwickham tweeted out a basic Johnson diagram earlier, it seemed like a good opportunity to apply some Brexit Diagram logic to this problem...

Headline numbers:

Chances 54 letters reached early Feb
50%

Chances leadership election starts early Feb
37%
Chances Johnson stays on a bit longer - at least until the Met Police concludes its investigation
63%

And yes, as every, diagrams like this cannot tell you everything. I cannot begin to predict what the Met Police will say, or when it will conclude
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Jan 25
"Welkom on bord zis Deusche Bahn InterCityExpress Servisss to... errr... Leuven!"

"Today we will be stopping in Torhout, Izegem, Ingelmunster and Gent St Pieters!"
(Something has gone totally wrong with the way @DB_Bahn lists Belgian trains in its timetable today. I found the problem when booking earlier, and then @trassenfinder found the regional train listed as a ICE! Fingers crossed this is fixed soon!)
We've also meanwhile discovered a new Kortrijk-Leuven ICE line. Gent and Leuven are really the beneficiaries of this new timetable (error)!
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Jan 24
As part of something else I'm working on, I discovered you could - by my estimations - run a Tallinn-Riga-Kaunas/Vilnius train with a timetable of about 10 hours on current infrastructure

Would route as highlighted in red Image
Sure, 10 hours is not great, but that's how long the bus also takes for this route!

Plus it would serve
🇪🇪 Tallinn (1st city), Tartu (2nd city)
🇱🇻 Riga (1st city), Jelgava (4th city)
🇱🇹 Vilnius (1st city), Kaunas (2nd city), Šiauliai (4th city)
You would have to reverse the train once - in Kaunas

The downside, environmentally, is you would have to use a diesel locomotive - a TEP70

Pic source: flickr.com/photos/6925841… Image
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