jhb171achill Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 What's this all about? In the Algarve.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 The logo of REFER, the former Portuguese rail infrastructure company obsolete since 2015. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 hours ago, minister_for_hardship said: The logo of REFER, the former Portuguese rail infrastructure company obsolete since 2015. Any idea who copied who? Who had it first? The Irish version dates back to 1987. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 The arrival & departure boards at Santa Apolónia station in Lisbon featured the logo when I visited in 2015: It had been removed when I returned last summer, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 hours ago, jhb171achill said: Any idea who copied who? Who had it first? The Irish version dates back to 1987. REFER was formed in 1997 ten years after IR used the set of point logo. ,Although the logos are not identical the "R" obviously is the same. They may have copied the PWD colors too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 I don't know about copied, it's generic looking, like all the variations of winged wheels used by numerous (usually European) transport companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 8 hours ago, DiveController said: REFER was formed in 1997 ten years after IR used the set of point logo. ,Although the logos are not identical the "R" obviously is the same. They may have copied the PWD colors too The caption on the pic (which I lifted off some website) said it was taken in 1993 - caption clearly wrong in that case..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Unless the logo was pre-existing and was carried over which seems unlikely but I don't know who preceded REFER in Portugal (I haven been there since about 1990) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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