Editing British Rail (section)

=== Post-1960s ===
[[File:Livree BR.GIF|thumb|Corporate liveries, 1923–1994]]

The uniformity of BR branding continued until the process of [[sectorisation]] was introduced in the 1980s. Certain BR operations such as [[InterCity (British Rail)|Inter-City]], [[Network SouthEast]], [[Regional Railways]] or [[Rail Express Systems]] began to adopt their own identities, introducing logos and colour schemes which were essentially variants of the British Rail brand. Eventually, as sectorisation developed into a prelude to privatisation, the unified British Rail brand disappeared, with the notable exception of the Double Arrow symbol, which has survived to this day and serves as a [[generic trademark]] to denote railway services across Great Britain.{{sfn|Jackson|2013}} The BR Corporate Identity Manual is noted as a piece of British [[design history]] and there are plans for it to be re-published.<ref>{{cite news |title = Is the British Rail logo a design icon? |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35144496 |work = BBC News |access-date = 20 December 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151220132046/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35144496 |archive-date = 20 December 2015}}</ref>