Condition Notes: Good condition, neat, clean & tidy copy, well looked-after. Fully colour illustrated throughout. The dustjacket is worn and faded on the spine (sunned) and there is a liquid spill mark on the back of the spine in the middle. There's a small patch of surface loss on the dustjacket in the top right quarter on the front cover where (we think) the removal of a price-sticker has taken a small patch of surface with it. The dustjacket is not price-clipped. This is a very decent copy of a very collectable book

About this book: This book is about the policy which British Rail, the UK's railways network, adopts towards design. The British Railways Board, the senior management of BR (as it existed when this book was published) saw good design as central to good business, and therefore this book showed how good design could help BR meet the problems and challenges of its new organizational structure.

The book presents 21 years of working with design at British Rail - and some of the problems associated with maintaining design standards in a large organization which is, at the same time, one and many enterprises.

Throughout the book, the professional contribution of engineer, architect and designer has been, and still is, in the service of the sector business requirements and the corporate role of the British Railways board. The book illustrates just some acespts of design that may help to focus on the problems for debate, particularly given BR's position as an international leader of a new wave of public design - giving the national rail system a modern face and restoring the image of rail transport

Chapters: Foreword; Design in Motion; Pioneers; Brunel and the Broad Gauge; The Birth of Railway Graphics; Technical Control; Corporate Identity; Corporate Symbols; BR Alphabet; Signage; Information Sheets; Station Architecture (York, King's Cross, Denmark Hill, Portsmouth & Southsea, etc); Rolling Stock, Front Ends (HST, APT); To Sit in the Chair; Engineering Design; Intercity High Speed Train Power Car - Cross Section and Plan; InterCity High Speed Train Power Car Cab: Cross Section; InterCity High Speed Train Power Car Cab - Cross Section; MK III Carriage, 1st Class, Cross Section; MK III B Carriage, Computer Drawing of Roof Detail; APT Power Bogie Drawing; APT-P End Trailer Bogie Drawing; Ergonomic Seat Design Drawing; Prototype of Net Suspension Seat Drawing; Intercity High Speed Train Power Car Cab Plan; The Journey; Station Environment; Travel Centres; Rail Catering; Travellers-Fare; Road Vehicles; Uniforms; Sector Management; The InterCity Sector; The Provincial Sector; The London & South East Sector; The Freight Sector; The Parcels Sector; Working with Design; The Open Door; Quo Vadis?; The Contributors (list of names from the: British Railways Board; Sector Directors; Travellers-Fare; British Railways Board's Design Panel; Chief Architect's Department; Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department; Industrial Design Department