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The British Rail "Double Arrow" designed by Gerry Barney (1965). The British Rail Double Arrow is a logo that was created for British Rail (BR), the then state-owned operator of Britain's railway network, in 1965.
He later worked for Wolff Olins, and in 1978, together with his colleagues David Bristow, Kit Cooper and Terence Griffin, set up British design agency Sedley Place. In 2021, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) hoped that Barney would endorse a new version of the logo in different shades of green, to highlight the environmental benefits of train ...
The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual is a corporate identity guide created in 1965 by British Rail. It was conceived in 1964, and finished in July 1965 by British Rail's Design Research Unit, [1] and introduced British Rail's enduring double arrow logo, created by Gerald Barney and still in use today as the logo for National Rail. [2]
The British Rail double arrow designed by Gerry Barney of the DRU. The Design Research Unit (DRU) was one of the first generation of British design consultancies combining expertise in architecture, graphics and industrial design. It was established in 1943 by the poet Herbert Read, architect Misha Black and graphic designer Milner Gray. [1]
British Rail [28] British Airports Authority DSB [28] NHS Road signs in Iran: Designed for British Rail in 1964. Still in use on parts of the UK rail network, but mostly superseded elsewhere. Rail Alphabet 2: United Kingdom railway stations: An evolution of Rail Alphabet commissioned by Network Rail and planned for use on new station signage ...
Rail Express Systems was the sector of British Rail responsible for transport of mail and parcels traffic. Its rolling stock initially carried the standard Rail Blue (or blue and grey) livery; in 1992, it introduced a new livery of red and grey, with pale blue and grey flashes.
Margaret Vivienne Calvert [1] OBE RDI (born 1936) is a British typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, as well as the Transport font used on road signs, the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system, and an early version of the signs ...
English: The British Rail 'double arrow' logo, in white with a Flame Red background. Flame Red is based on the definition in British Standard BS381C, where it is identified by the number 593 and the names Rail Red and Azo Orange. It is considered notoriously difficult to reproduce accurately on computer screens.