Rail Replacement Coach
Our journey on The Bittern Line from Norwich to Sheringham to a railway event at the heritage North Norfolk Railway with Greater Anglia was interrupted at Cromer due to ongoing engineering works between Cromer and Sheringham. So like many others across the network at the weekend, a rail replacement coach it is then.
The irony here is that this very pleasant, clean and tidy luxury coach was light years better than the Greater Anglia train we travelled in from Norwich to Cromer.. Unusually for me, I completely neglected to record in my travel notes the details of this unbranded coach, make, model, operator, year of manufacture and so on etc.
Note the British Rail 'double arrow' logo at the top of Cromer Station location marker post thingy. This logo is designed to show two arrows showing the direction of travel on a twin track line.
The British Rail logo which first appeared in 1965 with the British Transport Commission's rebrand of British Railways was designed by Gerald Burney. It is brilliantly simplistic, instantly recognisable and arguably one of the most enduring of any logo design for a United Kingdom only brand .
Despite privatisation and the end of British Rail from 1997 the double arrow remains in use on tickets, direction signs, outside stations as shown here and as the National Rail brand logo.
My Bus and Coach album flic.kr/s/aHsjJgWqCA
Rail Replacement Coach
Our journey on The Bittern Line from Norwich to Sheringham to a railway event at the heritage North Norfolk Railway with Greater Anglia was interrupted at Cromer due to ongoing engineering works between Cromer and Sheringham. So like many others across the network at the weekend, a rail replacement coach it is then.
The irony here is that this very pleasant, clean and tidy luxury coach was light years better than the Greater Anglia train we travelled in from Norwich to Cromer.. Unusually for me, I completely neglected to record in my travel notes the details of this unbranded coach, make, model, operator, year of manufacture and so on etc.
Note the British Rail 'double arrow' logo at the top of Cromer Station location marker post thingy. This logo is designed to show two arrows showing the direction of travel on a twin track line.
The British Rail logo which first appeared in 1965 with the British Transport Commission's rebrand of British Railways was designed by Gerald Burney. It is brilliantly simplistic, instantly recognisable and arguably one of the most enduring of any logo design for a United Kingdom only brand .
Despite privatisation and the end of British Rail from 1997 the double arrow remains in use on tickets, direction signs, outside stations as shown here and as the National Rail brand logo.
My Bus and Coach album flic.kr/s/aHsjJgWqCA