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eva lauren @ CCCamp23 📞 2707

@Gaelan very cool!

if I may … the British Rail double arrow symbol only applies to GB, not NI, which is separate (logos attached, I prefer the old one)

(arrows trivia for those curious: it’s nowadays owned by the Department for Transport, and licensed to the Association of Train Operating Companies, branded as National Rail)

(it’s also arguable that in Scotland and Wales the logos of the national TOCs is appropriate? :o though these do still run under the National Rail branding so maybe not!)

The new Translink “ni railways” (in lower case) logo, with the name in blue in an uninteresting geometric sans-serif typeface similar to Avenir, but a bit brighter; accompanied by a less exciting white letter “T” in the same font, inside a friendly blue hexagon with rounded off points.
The old Translink NI Railways logo lockup, featuring its name in a fun blue sans-serif font; and to the left, a symbol featuring a swooshy white lower case letter T made of clipped ellipse shapes, where the cross of the T looks like rails crossing the stem, all inside a blue oval.
30 Sep 2023 at 18:11 | Wall-to-wall | Open on glauca.space
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eva lauren @ CCCamp23 📞 2707

@Gaelan (bonus: this image featuring two even older NI Railways logos, yay!)

A composite graphic, featuring a circle made up of a train track illustration, inside which is the text “Celebrating 50 years 1968-2018”; surrounded by three NI Railways logos, all together on a blue plate in front of a dark trees background. On the left, the original NIR logo, which is a wide, sharp logo made up of the letters N and R merged together but offset such that the R is lower, and the shared line makes up an I, for ‘NIR’. On the right, a similar logo to the left, but more rounded, and the downwards slope of the N is extended to the end of the letter R, with the I in between. On the bottom, the 2000s NI Railways logo made up of a swishy oval lower case ‘t’ and “Translink NI Railways” in a bright sans-serif font.
30 Sep 2023 at 18:19 | Open on glauca.space
Gaelan Steele

@eval I limited myself to a "main" one per sovereign state because any other way lies madness - arguably the Australian states (I listed Journey Beyond, which is the descendant of a useful national operator but mostly just caters to tourists), Hong Kong, the half of Bosnia and Herzegovina that is neither Bosnia nor Herzegovina, and possibly Catalonia/Basque (though I think Renfe might do their intercity stuff) deserve their own logos as well

30 Sep 2023 at 18:32 | Open on cathode.church
irina 🌷🐇 friend of eggbug

@Gaelan @eval I was gonna mention, Journey Beyond isn't a transport operator, they're a rail cruiseline!

we just never had a good federal rail operator, and all passenger services are by the state governments. the federal government does have the Australian Rail Track Corporation, but they don't even own the most track, nor do they run the trains

1 Oct 2023 at 20:51 | Open on eldritch.cafe
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