Afternoon everyone.
A rather nice thing has come into my possession courtesy of my cousin Chris.
I’m posting this in the history section rather than media because I’d be interested in other peoples memories of the introduction of the triple grey Railfreight design in the late 1980s.
I believe it won design awards at the time although I’m not sure what they were, do any of you know?
I’ve been trying to remember what the first thing I saw in these colours was and I remember catching a train in the summer of 1988 hauled by 47079 which I think was in this livery by then.
The book I’ve been given is a rather nice thing with a protective box that it slides into and I’ve taken a few photos of it to show what it contains, basically the whole overall view of how everything related to the sector was intended to look.
This is the book with the box it comes in. Has anyone else got one of these? I haven’t seen one before and my cousin has always worked in design. This came from an office clear out many years ago and has been on one of his bookshelves for the past twenty years before he finally decided that I should have it.
A nice overview of the different Railfreight sectors here:
Lettering and the decals by the cab doors in these pages:
Some rather nice photography that made me remember that the class 56 was still a fairly modern machine at the time…
And the refurbishment program on the class 37s that was very recently completed too…
The different types of traction that the sector operated:
Even associated road transport is included in the book:
Some rather nice graphics including depot plaques are shown on these pages which of course were also part of the overall design and were to add an extra level of pride (hopefully) in the various fleets:
That’s my ten photo limit but if anyone wants to see anything else then let me know. Hopefully it’s of interest.
A rather nice thing has come into my possession courtesy of my cousin Chris.
I’m posting this in the history section rather than media because I’d be interested in other peoples memories of the introduction of the triple grey Railfreight design in the late 1980s.
I believe it won design awards at the time although I’m not sure what they were, do any of you know?
I’ve been trying to remember what the first thing I saw in these colours was and I remember catching a train in the summer of 1988 hauled by 47079 which I think was in this livery by then.
The book I’ve been given is a rather nice thing with a protective box that it slides into and I’ve taken a few photos of it to show what it contains, basically the whole overall view of how everything related to the sector was intended to look.
This is the book with the box it comes in. Has anyone else got one of these? I haven’t seen one before and my cousin has always worked in design. This came from an office clear out many years ago and has been on one of his bookshelves for the past twenty years before he finally decided that I should have it.
A nice overview of the different Railfreight sectors here:
Lettering and the decals by the cab doors in these pages:
Some rather nice photography that made me remember that the class 56 was still a fairly modern machine at the time…
And the refurbishment program on the class 37s that was very recently completed too…
The different types of traction that the sector operated:
Even associated road transport is included in the book:
Some rather nice graphics including depot plaques are shown on these pages which of course were also part of the overall design and were to add an extra level of pride (hopefully) in the various fleets:
That’s my ten photo limit but if anyone wants to see anything else then let me know. Hopefully it’s of interest.
That site's got a couple of other similar BR manuals on there too. Amazing resource.
