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British Rail Corporate Identity 1965-1994
- Please not red
- Mmmm, imaginary trains (done properly)
- Fair point
- Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
- This can go back to where it came from…
- Will never understand why the stripes are a different depth on locomotives #NetworkSouthEast #NSE
- I can forgive that, partly because silver (‘Argent’) and white are equivalents in heraldic terms) 😬
- Spectacular; a simple, single, white double arrow is so effective; only muppets would want this to be red on that backdrop
- Reposted by doublearrow.co.ukThree transport logotype/symbols in a row at Manchester Piccadilly station in 1986 on a saggy banner. #logo #manchester #transport @doublearrow64.bsky.social @richardprice.bsky.social #transport #manchester
- Mmmm, tripe :) @richardprice.bsky.social
- I can do tripe. I won't buy from anywhere other than the UCP. And I've 99 ways of preparing & serving tripe & cowheel thanks to this 1929 recipe book. @robertwoolley.bsky.social @tripeuk.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/UyP8tW
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- Happy 50th birthday Birmingham International!
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- Hard to argue with… #LargeLogo #RevisedBlue
- Large logo, revised blue, call it what you will, in my opinion the greatest livery of the British Rail era. These two giants of their time prove the point! 47593 ‘Galloway Princess’ and 37401 ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ at York a couple of years ago. #Class47 #Class37 #BritishRail
- Who is propagating this nonsense? Apart from always having been distinctly nondescript, those Network Rail major station icons are now obsolete and bear absolutely no relation to the new wayfinding design idiom
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- Intercity Pullman carriage names were aligned very oddly; the Flame Red stripe was 180mm deep, the x-height was 80mm, the gap below was 35mm and the gap above 65mm and I have absolutely no idea why, text was usually centred on x-height flic.kr/p/2jjGiEj (Michael J Collins)
- Admittedly this is only temporary but “We’ll do our own thing, thanks” is the scourge of wayfinding across the British rail network…
- @doublearrow64.bsky.social Have you seen the temporary signs in RA2 at Waterloo? Escalators out of service so an alternative route is signposted in what looks like the new wayfinding style - but all on LU property! One is on an existing LU sign so uses New Johnston.
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- The Class 73s in Executive InterCity livery had an unusually large symbol (not reflected in the AC electrics)—I don’t mind a big symbol although this one sails perilously close to the white stripe…
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- Thread 👀
- Pretty sure Frank Pick (and DRU for that matter), would be apoplectic due to the blurring of wayfinding and promotional messaging (I could also have written this post for the Underground’s ill-judged Heineken 0.0 campaign btw) #UnintelligentDesign
- Ah now @danielhwright.bsky.social knows full well I won’t be able to resist reposting this totem that uses NSE red (which was quite pink irrespective of weathering) and original NSE blue; don’t think much signage used the later blue (Also see stationheritageartefacts.org.uk for rail related goodies)
- These books are stunning btw
- 0.0/10
- Unforgivable. Mixing basic passenger information with advertising to the confusion of the former. Brand prostitution. flic.kr/p/2rRd5mF
