Logo Ideas

Firstly, I tried the idea of a town church in a rural house, monochrome.

The first attempt looked like an up arrow, so I tried again, but couldn't quite get the roof right.

 

Abandoning the idea, I decided to make a more text approach to the logo. I decided to try as best I could with the letters AMGR (Anglian and Midland Gainsridge Railway)

I tried to make the A look like a mountain and river in the second attempt.

The third attempt I tried to tail off the A and M into a two track railway.

Next I tried the A M and R tailing off in a similar fashion.

I decided next to concentrate on the R, tailing the A and M through to make the crossbars for the R, G, and A.

I tried to combine the letters more, and abruptly stopped.

I came up with a pleasing A and M tailing down to create a take of National Rail, but the R was a problem.

Top right is more of the train car livery, than the logo

I tried to turn the National Rail take 90 degrees, but it didn't look very good.

Lastly, I gave up on trying GMAR, as AMGR sounds and looks nicer.

I cannot draw tour buses, so this failed.

I drew the bus to guess how the tour company JT Tours' logo would fit.

You can see the original idea was more set on a slanted grid.

Very quickly, I adjusted to a crescent shape, with JT morphed in somehow, and Tours sitting in the curve of the crescent.

This was more based on the fact that I have to sign to confirm receipt of my travel money every morning.

Starting off so small I can't read it, and getting more confident.

I am really not very keen on the way I try to sign a J, so decided to try a strange approach (top middle)

This turned into a tall type of J, reading Jonathan, with a similar elegant T, overlapping the "n" of Jonathan. This was not intentional, and I hurriedly scribbled a "Limited" under it, in the style of Bryn Melyn Ltd: The bus I catch every morning.

Rather liking the lack of space between the "n" and T, I reproduced it in a more confident take.

Lastly, 3 in 1:

Bus Company, Tour Company, and Railway Company.