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  1. It is a form of general taxation and is in no way ring-fenced, any more than alcohol duty is ploughed back into subsidising public houses.
  2. This is a model railway forum. All forms of pedantry up to and including rivet counting are inevitable.
  3. That was what I had in mind. Clearly there is popular consensus on this idea.
  4. But that is deliberate policy, to encourage the transition away from internal combustion vehicles; doubly necessary given the initial high first cost of electric vehicles. As electric vehicles become the norm, so their first cost will decrease and the tax on them increase.
  5. The truth of the second half of this sentence is independent of the truth of the first half.
  6. It would be iniquitous to impose Road Tax on electric vehicles, since it has not been charged on internal combustion vehicles since 1937. Vehicle Excise Duty rates for electric vehicles are to be equalised with those on internal combustion vehicles from 1 April 2025. It would be straightforward to replace fuel duty with an annual mileage tax, at a rate proportionate to the efficiency of the vehicle. This would preserve the current system of taxation on both ownership and use.
  7. Interesting. The usual London Terminus for GWR when Paddington is inaccessible is Reading.
  8. One would hope that a person in that position would have a good eye for colour! Also, the locomotives would have to pass acceptance by a representative of the railway company's Locomotive Superintendent, so any gross deviation from the specified colour would, one supposes, be picked up. I would imagine that with repeat orders in mind, care would be taken not to upset the customer?
  9. Driving into London yesterday, i was reminded that the signs giving notice of restricted access to more polluting vehicles are in Old French: lez ulez.
  10. It's finding original sources for the source and composition of the pigment that seems troublesome. Take crimson lake, with apologies: the story usually trotted out of that it is made from the cochineal beetle, which may have been true in Renaissance artists' studios, but I can't help feeling that there cannot have been enough beetles to go round by the later 19th century. The daughter of friends of ours has become an historical pigment chemist; I'd really like to get an in-depth chat with her, but she's currently based in Cologne.
  11. Post truth has more to do with signalling, fencing, etc., surely? Or possibly TPOs?
  12. The unvarnished truth... ... which will not be the truth, since the effect of varnish is critical!
  13. I've been really enjoying the photos of Kirkby Malham (and some of Canal Road, I think) that Chris has been posting on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210601504352903/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=696826429063739
  14. Was it not Henry Booth, Secretary of the L&M, who devised the first primitive screw coupling precisely to eliminate that effect?
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