Rail Alphabet in use at Castle Cary railway station Rail Alphabet is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for British Railways. New Rail Alphabet is a revival of the British Rail alphabet designed by Margaret Calvert of Kinneir Calvert Associates in the early Sixties. Kubel traced the original letterforms and produced a complete typeface in one. Top: A2's Henrik Kubel and Margaret Calvert work on New Rail Alphabet at the. When British Rail unveiled its comprehensive corporate identity in 1964, one of the key elements which made it work was a new typeface.
Kinneir Calvert signed the motorways and roads with their Transport alphabet (see Eye no.
The public projects carried out by Jock Kinneir and Calvert, from the late 1950s, when they designed signs for Gatwick airport, through to 1965, when they completed the signing system for British Railways, bear the hand of South African-born Calvert, who drew the letterforms. But for many, Margaret Calvert’s lettering left a big stamp on Britain in the 1960s. You can’t brand a decade any more than you can brand a nation.
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