Train Artisan

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:33 pm

Because BR became privatised and the logos copyright passed on to those institutions. I distinctly recall someone posting on here as to who owned the double arrow logo now, as well as the BR and British Railways names. Even GWR I think is copyrighted still. If you are that interested a search of the forums will bring the relevant posts up.

lwaxl00 · Post by **lwaxl00** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:38 pm

I remember reading somewhere at the time of privatisation that BR owned the names and logo's of the big four, and were refusing to allow allow any of the new toc's to use them. Would the sra own the BR trademark now?

Alan L

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:04 pm

johndibben wrote:As for TOC's, I can only speak about one with any certainty and that's Virgin Trains. They love publicity and welcome anything (as long as it's seen as a quality product in it's field) with their name on it. I doubt they'd be any problem with a 'not for profit' item. They've heard of MSTS but it isn't uppermost on their minds at the moment. Trainsimming may be be big here but in the scheme of things, it's very small beer. MS approched Virgin while in the development stage.

I have the letter to prove it too !