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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.
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 train station sign at Wymondham, with the double arrow, the corporate identity of National Rail. The National Rail (NR) logo was introduced by ATOC in 1999, (previously British Rail logo as used from 1965), and was used on the Great Britain public timetable for the first time in the edition valid from 26 September in that year.
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 ...
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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.
A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.