What is BR?

[dub dub]

when looking at flat advertisements in london, they say close to BR.....what is BR?

 

[johnny_t]

British Rail ? Like, the station ?

 

[Diyisfun]

Thought BR was no longer

 

[JohnD]

Not for more than 10 years. I did some work for BR in 1995 or so, in York and Darlington (a real backwater), went to one of their London offices the day after Maggie had flogged it, and they'd already got the big sign up saying "Railtrack" (as was)

 

[big-all]

the point is its recognised as the abreviation for overground services as opposed to trams light rail or underground

and as the adverts are per carricter its cost effective to use recognised abreviations

 

[JohnD]

OK B-A

 

[Diyisfun]

So an 18 year old knows of BR(think not),
Its now National Rail, bit like the temperature is C not F

 

[johnny_t]

How about when they put a telephone number on a poster or business card, they use one of those stylised dial-phones with a receiver on top as a symbol instead of writing 'Tel:'. Don't look much like any phone the young folk these days will have ever seen........

 

[JohnD]

How about when they put a telephone number on a poster or business card, they use one of those stylised dial-phones with a receiver on top as a symbol instead of writing 'Tel:'. Don't look much like any phone the young folk these days will have ever seen........

It reminds them of the red-and-yellow plastic Fisher Price phone they had when they were little.

 

[johnny_t]

Wouldn't the absence of eyes and a nose be confusing ?

 

[hermes]

How about when they put a telephone number on a poster or business card, they use one of those stylised dial-phones with a receiver on top as a symbol instead of writing 'Tel:'. Don't look much like any phone the young folk these days will have ever seen........

Doesn't the warning sign for a level crossing have a silhouette of a steam-engine on it? Doubt if many 18 year-olds have a problem with that.

 

[JohnD]

they used to watch "Ivor The Engine" and "The Railway Children"

Choo-choo!





(Jenny Agutter, eh? Hasn't she got an attracrive voice?)

 

[securespark]

Walkabout, eh, eh? Nod, nod, w*nk, w*nk.....

 

[johnny_t]

How about when they put a telephone number on a poster or business card, they use one of those stylised dial-phones with a receiver on top as a symbol instead of writing 'Tel:'. Don't look much like any phone the young folk these days will have ever seen........

Doesn't the warning sign for a level crossing have a silhouette of a steam-engine on it? Doubt if many 18 year-olds have a problem with that.

Probably not but, to be honest, until this thread it never would have occurred to me that the concept of 'British Rail' had become obsolete for a new generation, so its best not to assume......

 

[2scoops0406]

British rail still exists as a company, I don't know what it does but it still exists