Rail Blue

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corporate colour scheme railway livery

Rail Blue is the iconic dark blue corporate colour scheme adopted by British Rail in the late 1960s for its diesel and electric locomotives and rolling stock.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
British Rail blue and grey coaching stock livery	1
Rail Blue canonical	1

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	corporate colour scheme ⓘ railway livery ⓘ
appliedBy	British Rail ⓘ
appliedTo	first-generation DMUs ⓘ first-generation EMUs ⓘ locomotive-hauled coaching stock ⓘ
associatedEra	British Rail blue period ⓘ
associatedWith	British Rail ⓘ surface form: British Rail corporate identity TOPS renumbering era ⓘ
brandingFunction	unified national image for British Rail ⓘ
colourFamily	dark blue ⓘ
colourRole	primary body colour ⓘ
contrastsWith	post‑privatisation multi‑brand liveries ⓘ pre‑nationalisation company colours ⓘ
countryOfUse	United Kingdom ⓘ
culturalSignificance	iconic British railway livery ⓘ
designGoal	simple easily maintained livery ⓘ
followedColourPolicy	standardisation of BR liveries ⓘ
historicalContext	post‑Beeching modernisation of British Rail ⓘ
introducedBy	British Rail ⓘ
introducedInDecade	1960s ⓘ
introducedInPeriod	late 1960s ⓘ
perceivedAs	symbol of 1970s British railways ⓘ
replaced	pre‑TOPS regional liveries ⓘ
status	largely superseded ⓘ
stillUsedFor	heritage railway repaints ⓘ preserved British Rail rolling stock ⓘ
supersededBy	privatisation-era liveries ⓘ sectorisation liveries ⓘ
typicalApplication	locomotive body sides ⓘ
typicallyCombinedWith	British Rail Rail Alphabet typeface programme ⓘ surface form: Rail Alphabet lettering double arrow logo ⓘ yellow warning panel ⓘ
usedFor	coaching stock ⓘ diesel locomotives ⓘ electric locomotives ⓘ freight wagons ⓘ multiple units ⓘ
usedFromApprox	1965 ⓘ
usedOnNetwork	British Rail ⓘ surface form: British Rail main line network
usedUntilApprox	mid‑1980s ⓘ
visualImpact	uniform corporate appearance ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

British Rail → introducedLivery → Rail Blue ⓘ

British Railways London Midland Region → usedLivery → Rail Blue ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Rail blue and grey coaching stock livery