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The logo was used widely by British Rail on trains, stations and tickets. It was also used by subsidiary companies, most notably on the funnels of Sealink ferries, where the standard image was used on the port side side, but a mirror image on the starboard side so that the top arrow always pointed to the bow of the ship.
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 ]
Gerald Lawrence Barney (born () 18 September 1939) [1] is a British designer, best known for his 1965 British Rail Double Arrow, which is still in use in the UK. [ 2 ] In 1960, aged 21, Barney started his career at the Design Research Unit (DRU) as a lettering artist, and soon became close to the studio’s co-founder, Milner Gray . [ 2 ]
The British Rail Double Arrow, designed by Gerry Barney in 1965. GBR will use modified forms of British Rail's Double Arrow symbol and Rail Alphabet typeface – Rail Symbol 2 and Rail Alphabet 2 respectively – for its branding. The Williams-Shapps plan recommended that there will be a single, unifying brand for railways, and it is expected ...
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
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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.
InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was a brand name introduced by British Rail in 1966 for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history). In 1982, the British Railways Board divided its operations into a number of sectors (sectorisation).