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"Mr President, the Commission’s Interoperability Directive admits that it is about enabling ‘citizens of the Union … to benefit to the full from the advantages deriving from the establishing of an area without … frontiers.’ This vision is a burden to the UK because many of the EU population buy only one-way tickets.
I am pleased that isolated, narrow-gauged and preserved railways will be exempt. But what about secondary rail routes? Presumably, all this extra paperwork allows Luxembourgers, Latvians and Lithuanians to line up and run services from Long Eaton to Letchworth.
I know it is mainly about freight trains, ‘non-stop from Lisbon to Liverpool without changing locomotives or train crews’, says the briefing. Some hope! What will the crew say about the Working Time Directive? Also, it will be stopped and checked for illegal immigrants west of Folkestone. Current Portuguese locos would come off the track before the Channel Tunnel, as the rails in France are too narrow.
This train will stop. The triumph of blind ideology over commonsense makes this place into the paper mill that the UK has come to despise. Have a nice day, Mr President, but first cure the tunnel vision."@en1
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