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‘Arrows of desire’, a book all about the illustrious British Rail symbol, published by the modernist® @modernistmag is now available for pre-order at…

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Maybe now we'll be able to have a grown-up conversation about what the new 'public rail body' should be called?

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A short thread about the design rationale for Rail Symbol 2, a project that I was extremely privileged and thrilled to have worked on last year...

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That’s one word for it… Euston’s tiresome, tasteless and unnecessarily dominant new digital commercial advertising hoarding is now live in place of the former departure boards—an emblem of our times

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Wall-to-wall Inter-City 125s at King's Cross, July 1981, at a time when the apostrophes in the station name were deemed surplus to requirements

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An unidentified Inter-City 125 in the winter sunshine at Brookmans Park in North London, December 1981

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Difficult enough taking a decent photo in daylight hours, this study of 55012 Crepello at York, February 1978, by David Hayes is something else; the understated 200mm x-height British Rail symbol at the centre of the composition ought not to go unnoticed

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Inter-City 125 as nature intended in #RailBlue and #WarningYellow , four beauties in various states of cleanliness line up at Laira, February 1982

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Blunt Class 91 operation disrupts the InterCity swallow livery in 2 main ways: (1) the swallow is flying backwards, and (2) there is a block of Silver White in between two lots of Executive Light Grey (plus look at those very old cars, never get over that)

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Superb study of another unidentified Inter-City 125 at King's Cross, no date given; I had to zoom in to make sure it wasn't a painting...

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Off the beaten track at Old Linslade, near Leighton Buzzard (no date given), these four thoroughbreds are off to Crewe for some maintenance, notably running blunt end first...

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Here is a book all about the British Rail symbol that I've been working on for a while...

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Cars and a train at Dawlish (Picture c/o @balwen76 )

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Perfect timing from the lens of Bill Atkinson as two HSTs pass on the East Coast mainline at Abbots Ripton, March 1988; I know many prefer the original livery but this isn't too shabby :)

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Artist’s impression of #Electra ; red lettering would not ultimately have been sanctioned on a dark grey background nor would the symbol have been used after the logotype nor centred on cap-height Photograph c/o @LogoArchive , probably attributable to BRE (British Rail Engineering)

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What is this in the process of becoming?

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Edinburgh-bound 55014 The Duke of Wellington's Regiment passes Retford, December 1978 #RailBlue (John Woolley)

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For as long as this screen is massive and the departure board stays tiny (and badly positioned), this will always be an embarrassingly massive miscalculation; how’s that advertising revenue going? Emblematic of a railway that has been brought to its knees by poor transport policy

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The Screen at Euston - now just doing animation. I don’t have a strong view on it. Quite a calming backdrop as I munched my breakfast in a box 🍳

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The recently repainted Inter-City 125 on #HSTFarewell duty for @LNER , captured brilliantly by @DerekRailway

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On the subject of oil and HSTs, they were always a little susceptible to the odd leakage issue...

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89001 at Doncaster, July 1988, with quartered buffers; I'd say Bounds Green were pretty proud of their sole 'badger', @johnners733 , noting those labels on the front? (Yellow springs too!)

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This photograph also caught my eye on eBay for various reasons; 43035 at Kintbury Level Crossing nr Newbury, date unknown

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Yep, let’s not bother with this in the UK either; instead let’s make our ‘fast’ trains continue to share the line with our slow ones on heaving routes and creaking infrastructure 👍

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This is basically like off the shelf technology that our policymakers refuse to implement in the biggest economy on the planet.

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Two HSTs cross at the site of Tondu station (the mainline was evidently closed between Bridgend and Port Talbot), July 1980; the cab roof of 253026 is remarkably clean and yellow :) (Stuart Warr)

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Never realised that the red and white stripes were so thick on the APT; tilting through Wolverton, March 1984

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47709 The Lord Provost at Preston, June 1985, fresh out of the paintshop following overhaul; regardless of the rights and wrongs of ScotRail being a sector, and the impossibility of keeping the yellow roofs remotely yellow, this isn't too shabby, is it?

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55014 looms in the Hull fog, February 1980, while 43081 stands opposite (presumably on test as regular HST services to Hull don’t launch until January 1981) (Syd Young)

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A very glossy Sc 49003 City of Derby stands outside Derby Locomotive Works, August 1980; once again I must commend this use of the BR symbol full on the dark grey band

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The photographer had the right idea, hotfooting it down to Nuneaton at lunchtime on Monday 14 May 1984 to record the inaugural 110mph Royal Scot from Ayr (0755) via Glasgow Central (0910) under cloudless Warwickshire skies… Photograph: Scott Borthwick ()

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Impressive array of Scottish motive power in revised ('large logo') blue, lined up at Eastfield in March 1986 captured by Mark Slater on what he calls his '1986 Scottish Easter Bash'

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310089 and E3003 line up side by side at Birmingham New Street, July 1967, providing an excellent comparison of #RailBlue and Electric Blue...

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Sad that the APT-P didn't amount to a more successful venture; was late home for tea a time or two because I'd tarried to see the late afternoon return to Glasgow... (Chelmscote, Leighton Buzzard, October 1984)

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Hydraulic lineup at Laira—D1051, D1015, D1059, D1009 and an unidentified shunter, October 1973

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Intercity services should not be 4 coaches long, they shouldn’t be 5 or 6 coaches long, not sure they should even be 7 coaches long—RoSCO nonsense; it shouldn’t be difficult for TOCs to provide requisite capacity for individual services

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Another horrible @CrossCountryUK journey with lots of people standing on a four carriage train. 🧵

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This might be the farthest reach of British Rail symbol yet…

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Exotic memorabilia in Seoul

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86247 in #RailBlue with a cast aluminium symbol at Euston with some Mark 2 Pullman stock, June 1974

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Vying for the future inside Old Oak Common at some point in the past (no date given)... Photograph: rugd1022

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Double-heading with an unidentified sibling, 50017 (with aforementioned circular headlight plate) rests under Brunel's whale-like Paddington trainshed; a lot if #RailAlphabet to be enjoyed in this image along with an iconic Nestlé vending machine...

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'A busy scene at Wolverhampton' July 1986

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37196 (among others) at Lostwithiel, April 1987; it’s not mentioned in the blurb but I think that might be a black-roofed Class 50 on the China clay in the distance… (Michael McNicholas)

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Been reflecting today on how we avoided this absurd franken-logo, an unsightly mashup of the Union Flag and the British Rail symbol...

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50025 Invincible (that is until some jerks obstructed the tracks at West Ealing in August 1989) pictured in fresh, sumptuous revised #RailBlue ( #LargeLogo ) livery at Doncaster Works, Summer 1982 (Dan Augood)

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47573 freshly outshopped in original Network SouthEast at York, says July 1988 but must be 1986 to still be in that nick; the matt dark grey roof (an Eastern Region phenomenon) works extremely well against the glossy house colours… (George Woods)

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Grid me strength! Brand new 56092 stands proudly at Doncaster Works, June 1981, very much suiting its relatively newly conceived #LargeLogo attire #ProbablyTheBestLiveryInTheWorld

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Spotless 73102 propels a Gatwick Express set away from Clapham Junction, 25 April 1985, a couple of days after being named ‘Airtour Suisse’ at Gatwick Airport—it’s a good-looking train (Lewis Bevan)

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No idea how or why but it would appear the the Class 89 made its way onto a 30c postage stamp from Tuvalu

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Sublime composition by John Woolley; 50041 Bulwark opens up north of Teignmouth, June 1982

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Hadn't previously seen this particular wavy-lined triumvirate; an image from the Roundel #Railfreight rebranding project c.1987 #Petroleum (Photograph c/o @Chris_CD2010 , where is this Chris?)

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Some early chocolate and cream Pacer representation at Exeter St Davids in 1983; both units appear bound for Exmouth according to their destination blinds, I wonder what the tangerine monitors say in their charming and inimitable 8-bit way?

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47041 on Easter Monday footex duties at the decommissioned Thornhill Power Station, April 1983; worth pointing out that British Rail didn’t feel the insecure need to emblazon every last item of stock with their corporate symbol #LessIsMore (John Whiteley)

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#RailBlue is the colour: 47051 in a fresh coat of paint at Crewe Works, July 1985; no stripes, no words, no birds flying backwards half of the time, no embellishments, no gimmicks, just an understated British Rail symbol and a single locomotive number

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40090 trundles westward through Chinley, October 1982; some photographs are much better for being monochrome and I would say this is in that bracket

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1 year

Not sure British Rail exists but good point about the gate…

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Perhaps British Rail would like to explain this????

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Starting to get in festive mood with this shot from the appropriately named St Nicholas Bridges in Carlisle; doesn’t have a date but I think it might be January 1987 (although on that basis it’s still remarkably blue) (Dave McDigital)

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Anyone else love that the front end of this beauty is yellow? #WarningYellowForever

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As seen in the latest @railexpress , this is @RailOpsGroup No.93001 in Valencia, Spain. An EXCLUSIVE interview with ROG’s David Burley is in issue RE323. ROG.

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Friday night light... an immaculate 43045 The Grammar School Doncaster A.D. 1350—painted in the very presentable first generation #InterCity livery—on a test run at Findern, southwest of Derby, July 1985

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Such rich imagery from Bletchley, February 1989, 56039 in original #Railfreight livery on the flyover

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Season's greetings :) All you have to do, for extra Xmas bonus points, is tell me the eight locomotive numbers to which these lovely nameplates belong... #MerryChristmas

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Fabulous multifaceted photograph by Chris Addis of a couple of Duffs near Gleneagles, May 1988; a closer inspection reveals a couple of howlers though...

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A quite stunning 45144 ROYAL SIGNALS sporting a fresh coat of #RailBlue with other embellishments, reversing onto a northbound express at Bristol Temple Meads, May 1985

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An extremely shiny 43115 at Newcastle, January 1994, showing off its InterCity swallow livery designed by Newell & Sorrell in late 1987; it's paired with its rather grubbier sibling 43120 and together they're off to Heaton TMD

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Ford ABV151B painted like an old skool Inter-City 125 at Carnforth, mid-1980s, just needs an Inter-City 125 logotype; thought to have had a model railway inside, according to the blurb… (Graeme Phillips)

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Cracking example of an HST powercar (43087) in brand spanking new #InterCity livery at Derby Etches Park, May 1985 (by which time red stripe #Railfreight livery had become the standard for dedicated freight locomotives as modelled by converted 37682)

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TfW appear to have painted (waterproofed?) 67020 with actual tar (Photograph @MrDonnington )

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This photo contains a few points of branding interest, not least correct use of the lighter weight symbol, the Helvetica-style 2 used in the Inter-City 125 logotype and the warm shade of green used for bilingual Welsh (first)/English name (Steve Thorpe)

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Sorry if I've bored you again with BR symbols; here's an HST at Newport to placate you—a superb early shot (August 1979) by Brian Daniels, no exhaust deflector, standard BR symbol (not the überheavy impostor!)

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You'll be hard pressed to find a locomotive livery that was more fetching than large logo which very much suited all the classes that wore it and would have suited the electrics too if 87006 was anything to go by (47445 stabled at Doncaster, March 1987)

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From time to time, I like to remind myself that the first locomotive—56036—to carry revised Rail Blue (large logo) livery was painted as early as August 1978; here it is a year or so later at Derby Works, September 1979

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An imperious D1036 with blacked out numberplate ‘D’, prior to latterly adopted headcode IDs, awaits dispatch (note clear signal reflected in windscreen) at Exeter St David’s, May 1975 (Trevor Ermel)

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Peak viewing at Beeston FLT, May 1977, as 45050 departs for Darlington (where the train would divide); if anything, this photograph proves that in reality the striking Freightliner colour scheme for was quite unable to withstand the rigours of everyday use

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Works well when there isn't a rogue Rail Blue/Grey in the rake as so often happens, 87007 fresh out of the paintshop at Hest Bank, June 1992, in one of the InterCity swallow schemes; surprised at the old brake van at this point, not sure when DVTs arrived?

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And here's something you don't see every day; Class 43 double-header with Mark 4 stock...

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English Electrics 55007 Pinza and 50034 Furious about to undergo the parting of the ways—unto scrap and refurbishment respectively—at Doncaster Works, May 1982

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Array of Class 87/2s (what utter nonsense!) at London Euston on the last day of March 1990, making the Euston traction scene look deceptively uniform; I always had a lot of time for the sleek 90s with their distinctive tri-tone horns) (Lewis Bevan)

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No idea how Derek Hoskins took this photograph but it's a blinder; unidentified HST passes Carmont signal box near Stonehaven, July 1984

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Collector’s item: 50042 (newly refurbished?) at Eastfield SB, Peterborough, in what must be May 1982 or thereabouts*, in revised Rail Blue livery notably without its ‘Triumph’ nameplates *assuming this is a post-refurb test train (John Rudd)

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Western miscellany including what looks rather like a signwriter's #RailAlphabet platform 12 sign and an oddly positioned depot sticker (OO) on the front of 43036 at Bristol Temple Meads, November 1981 (are those GWR wrought iron bench ends too?)

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This shot at King’s Cross shows 55004 on the up Tees Tyne Pullman in November 1974 having the requisite number (five) of first class Pullman carriages in reverse Rail Blue and Pearl Grey so I wonder if fewer Pullman cars were used from 1975? (David Hayes)

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A very shiny InterCity 125 freshly painted in Executive livery at Newcastle, August 1985; Flickr caption say 43193 Yorkshire Post but to me it looks more like 43091 Edinburgh Military Tattoo from the longer nameplate :) (David Ford)

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Staying with Motorail, D1016 arrives with the 1V70 at a damp St Austell, August 1975; I don't think the St ('St. Austell') needs a full stop, strictly speaking #Snozzle

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I don't know what I like more: the bright orange or the bright orange

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I just don't think there's been a better suited livery for the Class 43 than the original blue and yellow; W43147 (WR set 253039) awaits its next turn to the West Country—not long before the familiar roar of the Valenta—at Paddington, April 1982

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So I wrote a book…

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In his new book 'Arrows of desire', Nick Job @_doublearrow takes a long look at the revered British Rail symbol. It is making something of a comeback although, in truth, it never really went away. You can pre-order your copy now.

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Refurbished but still in standard #RailBlue , 50017 sits on the turntable at Old Oak Common, June 1981; note the silver surround to the fixed beam headlight and the driver's windscreen wiper which has seen better days

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Sometimes wonder if the 2 Class 86s tarted up for the Rainhill celebrations were an under-the-radar trial of revised blue livery for the AC electrics (minus the large symbol); they looked good, this is 86235 Novelty at Rugby, May 1980 (Geoff Dowling)

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Just one word: Rail Blue (Interesting 87004 back story in the Flickr blurb, concerning Stratford open day, July 1979)

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A reminder that the white stripe on the locomotive is a different height to that on the coaches; perhaps #NetworkSouthEast should have stuck with London and SouthEast's jaffa cake livery?

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A southbound Royal Train, captured in Preston (possibly looking towards Skew Bridge from the Bee Lane overbridge just north of Farmington Curve Junction); the heavily zhuzhed up locomotive is 87023 Velocity, July 1986 (Alan Sherratt)

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87006 and 86312 (still looking quite smart following naming in October 1983) in front of Grade II-listed Birmingham New Street Signal Box (interesting use of the words ‘Signal Box’ which are seldom included on boxes) July 1984 (David Rostance)

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Some different accounts doing the rounds about the origins of this particular variant; a common theme seems to be Longsight painting it to trial a look for Virgin XC 43028, Northampton, July 1997 (Photo: Antony Guppy)

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86224 Caledonian (resplendent in a fresh coat of #RailBlue and other colours) pauses at a cloudless Lancaster, July 1983

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It's all kicking off this morning...

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Hoover heaven II: Illustrating the difference (symmetry of a sort) in ‘large logo’ livery on the A and B sides of the Class 50, 50009 + 50036 line up opposite 50021 at Oxford, August 1985 (Ian Cuthbertson)

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Railfreight Distribution's 90038 at Manchester Piccadilly c.1989 about to do an InterCity turn in its rather smart triple grey colours: Executive Dark Grey 81-201 (roof) Flint Grey 81-245 (upper body) Rail Grey 81-206 (lower body)

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Talking of King's Cross, this is still one of my favourite photographs...

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Superb study of another unidentified Inter-City 125 at King's Cross, no date given; I had to zoom in to make sure it wasn't a painting...

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If you don't mind being transported back to 1985, then allow this magnificent image by Bill Atkinson to take you there; working Cambridge to Liverpool Street at a pre-electrification Littlebury, 31252 was the first of its class to carry Railfreight livery

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Delighted that @LordPeterHendy , Minister of State for Rail, has written the foreword for my new book ‘Arrows of desire’

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Express unidentified Deltic action from Darlington, summer 1975, with a bonus bijoux assortment of motor cars; an assortment of bonus points available if you can tell me (or, better still, show me) what the poster is advertising down yonder ramp... :)

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World record holder 43102 with a claret stripe instead of Flame Red at the RTC, October 1987, before the 148.5mph run with coaches with Mark 4 bogies; Flame Red replaced claret by the following spring)

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Sub-classmate 86102 (with 110mph capability) at Leyland with a Blackpool North to London Euston service, June 1987; it has a touch of Pullman about it—see foremost Mk 3 first class coach carrying a name (unusually vertically centered on the red stripe)

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Season’s greetings #HoHoHo ! Nine correct answers, please...

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