InterCity InterCity InterCity... @doublearrow64.bsky.social flic.kr/p/2rVmjF4

Our Zeelander with his 'links' across the sea goes back a long way! Here he is in cahoots with the LNER in 1930. flic.kr/p/2pL5Z7w

Unusual ferryman bloke with a skipping rope which actually turns out to be a map of the Channel with London, Harwich and Hook of Holland marked; not an ideal foil to the double arrow!

Lovely

Nice work, Gareth :)

Uniquely cool design #Bone #Class58

Please not red

Mmmm, imaginary trains (done properly)

Fair point

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

Three 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

And of course because I like to have a bit of fun....

One for @doublearrow64.bsky.social - extant Rail Alphabet usage in Denmark I wonder if there's a Dansk wayfinding/publicity specialist tearing their hair out considering DSB have their own set of specific, bespoke (and quite attractive IMHO) fonts/typefaces.

Happy 50th birthday Birmingham International!

I know the GLA, who issued this, don't use TfL's Johnston - but boy, this shows why TfL do. Talk about looking 'wrong'. #typography #design @doublearrow64.bsky.social

Hard to argue with… #LargeLogo #RevisedBlue

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

No missing the BR van @doublearrow64.bsky.social - from a video on FB about Eastern Scottish buses & in the very year, 1979, I was conductor Ashworth of New St garage who worked duties on this type of bus through this type of town! (Richard Bache/Facebook)

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…

Morning all. A bitterly cold morning as I recall, as 37408 ‘Loch Rannoch’ traversed the Oban line with the Grangemouth to Connell Ferry oil train. Another service that was lost to road transport shortly after. Hope you all have a great day. #Class37 #Tractor #LargeLogo

Possibly only works because that logo had become *so* distinctive by this point, and a the impact of a considered choice to bleed is better than the impact of unconsidered sizing and placement. Iconic looks though, the pair of 'em.

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…

From the same book, thought of you when I saw the state of the double arrow on this Brush pre-production model of the Class 89. Interesting treatment of the Inter-City livery too.

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

One for the trackies…

Shiny; am I right in thinking these were Res locomotives?

It's the day! 6 January 1980 & you can save with a #London Crosstown ticket. British Rail publicity for what was the old North London Line, then still running to Broad St. station, & now, over time, utterly transformed as part of the Overground. #railways #transport ↘️ flic.kr/p/2ndLbg1

Imagine having the option of putting this in any livery in preservation and actually choosing EWS over this? 😩

Survived at Barking on platform buildings as late as 2022... stationheritageartefacts.org.uk/artefacts-re...

This would be quite a good dating filter TBH

Who has a copy of this?

Has anyone mentioned this one yet?

Glorious bunch of flowers 💐

That’s not even the original ICI roundel by Design Research Unit (that’s the Wolff Olins version—I have the WO identity manual somewhere)

Hard agree.

They don't make logos like they used to #MidlandBank

Just too tempting for some to extend parallel tracks from the British Rail symbol, even Newell and Sorrell did it for InterCity in the late 1980s; not sure it’s what the purists at DRU would have wanted

Gorgeous; it certainly has the Bernard Slatter feel to it, I’m not sure when he/British Rail started to attribute and reference for version control purposes but this seems to be an embryonic version of what would become the Network SouthEast map, albeit with a LT copyright for the Underground

Very generous of you to call it ‘signwriter’s Rail Alphabet’ :)

I swear, the Double Arrow logo is deceptively easy to mess up. One slightly wrong measurement and everything looks off.

Are you saying that this was in circulation before the official launch on 1 January 1965 and the exhibition at the Design Centre? We need to talk about the (un)faithfulness of the symbol too!