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With the privatisation of the railways in the mid-1990s, the trademark registration for the logo was transferred to the Secretary of State for Transport.As British railway trains are now operated by a number of independent train operating companies, the double arrow logo no longer appears on railway vehicles except those preserved.
Front cover of the manual. 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]
1848 – First railway in South America, British Guyana. The railway was designed, surveyed and built by the British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. John Bradshaw Sharples built all the railway stations, bridges, stores, and other facilities.
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.
Iranian railway history goes back to 1887 when an approximately 20-km long railway between Tehran and Ray was established. After this time many short railways were constructed but the main railway, Trans-Iranian Railway , was started in 1927 and operated in 1938 by connecting the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea.
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 ...
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 ...