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Gaelan Steele
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did I spend all of yesterday making a taxonomy of national railway logos? uh, maybe

@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!)

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

Gaelan Steele
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@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

irina 🌷🐇 friend of eggbug
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@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