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During which era was 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' displayed on railway tenders?
After the transport act of 1947, the railways were nationalised and control given to the British Transport Commission (BTC) the following year, the new organisation was to be called British Railways.
In the early years of British Railways, little had been done to create or implement much in the way of corporate branding, an elongated version of the London Transport emblem known as the British Railways Totem (and nicknamed the Hot Dog Sausage) was introduced on many station signs, timetables and paperwork but only one example ever made it through onto rolling stock and with little success.
This led to a half-hearted branding scheme where regions would simply print the wording 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' on the sides of tenders using lettering derived from their previous Big Four operator resulting in significant variations between designs.
This state of affairs only lasted a year or two as in 1949 the familiar Lion and Wheel design was given approval and started to appear on locomotive tenders although the hot dog sausage continued in use as the emblem for British Railways on everything other than rolling stock.
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