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    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. It...
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  • 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...
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  • Double Arrow or Double arrow may refer to: a subset of arrows in Unicode the British Rail Double Arrow logo, now officially known as the National Rail...
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  • Great British Railways (GBR) is a proposed state-owned public body that is to oversee rail transport in Great Britain except for Transport for London...
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    Gerry Barney (category Use British English from September 2021)
    (born (1939-09-18)18 September 1939) is a British designer, best known for his 1965 British Rail Double Arrow, which is still in use in the UK. In 1960...
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    Rail Blue. There is also a British Standard paint colour BS381C 114 called Rail Blue which was introduced in 1964. The new British Rail "double arrow"...
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  • with the new 'guiding mind', Great British Railways. However, National Rail continues to use BR's famous double-arrow symbol, designed by Gerald Burney...
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    (Residuary) Limited. The British Rail Double Arrow logo remains in place and is now employed as a generic symbol on street signs in Great Britain denoting railway...
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    only steam locomotives ever officially to carry the British Rail corporate blue and the double arrow logo. The number 98010 was assigned to an 0-6-0DH locomotive...
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  • 1964–1970 Since 1970 the map has used a reversed (red on white) British Rail "double arrow" beside the station name to indicate main line interchanges. Where...
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  • refer to: Gerry Barney (born 1939), British graphic designer, best known for designing the British Rail Double Arrow Gerald O. Barney (1937–2020), American...
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    such as ScotRail, Merseyrail, Eurostar and Freightliner still exist today. The double-arrow symbol which was the symbol of British Rail from 1965 still...
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    A redesigned version, Rail Alphabet 2, is planned to be used across the Great British Railways network, whilst the double arrow logo will also be restored...
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    introduced by British Rail in 1966 for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history). In 1986, the British Railways...
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    Design Research Unit (category British industrial designers)
    work in relation to the Festival of Britain in 1951 and its influential corporate identity project for British Rail in 1965. In 2004, DRU merged with Scott...
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    British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British Rail modernisation...
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    sole bars, yellow ends and large double arrows on the sides. At least four of the class were painted in the British Rail Telecommunications livery: 20 075 –...
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    D5900/3/4/8; D5908 also carried the new double-arrow BR symbol. D5909 was the only locomotive to receive the full "rail blue" livery. D5901 was transferred...
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  • and finished in July 1965 by British Rail's Design Research Unit, and introduced British Rail's enduring double arrow logo, created by Gerald Barney...
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  • Britain and owns the National Rail brand, which uses the former British Rail double-arrow logo and organises the common ticketing structure. Many of the...
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    The British Rail Class 99 was a fleet of train ferries, most of which were owned by Sealink, that carried rail vehicles between Britain and mainland Europe...
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    The British Rail Class 86 is a class of electric locomotives built during the 1960s. Developed as a 'standard' electric locomotive from earlier prototype...
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  • December 2001. January 4 – British Railways adopts a new corporate identity including the name British Rail and the 'double arrow' symbol. January 17 – Riverview...
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    The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive, which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail. It was designed...
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  • main bodysides were still rail blue but featured very large running numbers with a large white British Rail 'double arrow' logo in the middle, the full...
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    British Rail Mark 1 is the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) from 1951 until 1974...
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  • designs, the British-designed Class 14, Hymek and Western types; these were all eventually withdrawn and replaced with more standard British Rail diesel-electric...
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    Network NorthWest (category British Rail brands)
    142 Pacers in light blue British Rail Provincial livery had the "NW" emblem applied alongside the British Rail double arrow logo. Overground Network –...
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    The British Rail Class 310 was a slam-door, alternating current (AC) electric multiple-unit passenger train (EMU) introduced in 1965 as part of the West...
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    The British Rail Class 91 is a high-speed electric locomotive, which produces power of 4,830 kW (6,480 hp); it was ordered as a component of the East Coast...
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