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WelcomeAbout www.doublearrow.co.uk Whilst sourcing documents for this project, it became clear that few employees or contemporaries of the British Rail era had undertaken to retain any sort of archive of the documents in question; evidently a large quantity of British Rail's design archive was unceremoniously skipped at some stage during the privatisation of the British Rail under John Major's Conservative Government in the mid-90s. A small remainder of material found its way to the National Railway Museum in York and is now available through the museum's Search Engine facility. A number of other examples also now reside at the National Archives in Kew, including several portfolio pieces of interesting correspondence between British Railways, Design Research Unit (the agency commissioned with the original branding project) and Jock Kinneir who, along with his colleague Margaret Calvert, was responsible for the conception of Rail Alphabet, the bespoke typeface for the then newly formed British Rail. Acknowledgments Additional thanks must go to Tony Howard of Transport Design Consultancy (previously Head of Design, British Rail); Tim Procter, Curator of Archive & Library Collections, National Railway Museum; Daryl Wright (previously Design Manager, Regional Railways); all of whom have been extremely helpful. Feedback |
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