It's hideous. For all the reasons set out above.
I'm wondering whether the reason they didn't use the correct symbol and instead knocked their own (incorrect, with extra long diagonals, and what looks to me to be parallel lines on the edges of the "arms" where the originals are actually tapered away from each other) version up on Microsoft Paint is because this is the Rail Delivery Group and the ownership of the BR symbol is with the Secretary of State? Whilst I can't see the DfT suing the RDG for passing off or trademark infringement, I can foresee them not being willing to give permission to use the correct BR symbol in a context likely to mislead the public into thinking the RDG is the same as Network Rail or BR. Especially as even people on this forum appear to have mixed them up, let alone the general public.
I'm wondering whether the reason they didn't use the correct symbol and instead knocked their own (incorrect, with extra long diagonals, and what looks to me to be parallel lines on the edges of the "arms" where the originals are actually tapered away from each other) version up on Microsoft Paint is because this is the Rail Delivery Group and the ownership of the BR symbol is with the Secretary of State? Whilst I can't see the DfT suing the RDG for passing off or trademark infringement, I can foresee them not being willing to give permission to use the correct BR symbol in a context likely to mislead the public into thinking the RDG is the same as Network Rail or BR. Especially as even people on this forum appear to have mixed them up, let alone the general public.