British Rail wasn’t all bad. Sixty years after the brand launched we should remember its marketing successes
The railways were nationalised under the 1947 Transport Act and managed by “British Railways”. Back in the 1950s, the railway ...
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State-owned rail will inevitably be worse
Memories are short. The reason why the railways were privatised was not for ideology but because the network was failing under the old British Rail. It was underfunded because it was a constant ...
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New Great British Railways logo to be unveiled in bid to ‘restore pride’ in railways
As each operator is nationalised, it is understood that old logos will be dropped and all trains will carry a new Great British Railway logo instead. “We want to usher in a genuinely new era and ...