Class 37, 37409 'Lord Hinton'
53 year old English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel Co-Co locomotive 37409 'Lord Hinton' as owned and operated by Direct Rail Services in the low level sidings just outside Norwich Station at the end of the Great Eastern Main Line in Norfolk (UK).
37409 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service as D6970 on March 4th 1965.
Note the classic British Rail (large) double arrow logo on the side of the locomotive.
The 'double arrow' first appeared in 1965 with the British Transport Commission's rebrand of British Railways into British Rail.
The 'double arrow' logo was designed by Gerald Burney and is designed to show the directions of travel on a twin track line. It is brilliantly simplistic, instantly recognisable and arguably one of the most enduring of any logo design for a UK only brand.
The British Rail 'large logo' livery first appeared on a [Class 56] locomotive in 1978.
Despite privatisation and the end of British Rail from 1997 the double arrow remains in use on tickets, direction signs and as the National Rail brand logo.
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 37, 37409 'Lord Hinton'
53 year old English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel Co-Co locomotive 37409 'Lord Hinton' as owned and operated by Direct Rail Services in the low level sidings just outside Norwich Station at the end of the Great Eastern Main Line in Norfolk (UK).
37409 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service as D6970 on March 4th 1965.
Note the classic British Rail (large) double arrow logo on the side of the locomotive.
The 'double arrow' first appeared in 1965 with the British Transport Commission's rebrand of British Railways into British Rail.
The 'double arrow' logo was designed by Gerald Burney and is designed to show the directions of travel on a twin track line. It is brilliantly simplistic, instantly recognisable and arguably one of the most enduring of any logo design for a UK only brand.
The British Rail 'large logo' livery first appeared on a [Class 56] locomotive in 1978.
Despite privatisation and the end of British Rail from 1997 the double arrow remains in use on tickets, direction signs and as the National Rail brand logo.
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/class37/
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.