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![[Railway flag]](../images/d/dk$dsb.gif)
56:107, by
Jan Oskar Engene
I noticed that the DSB (railways) flag was submitted
by Jan Oskar Engene to NordVex in May.
Ole Andersen, 3 January 2001
The new flag for the railways were approved in general by the Queen on 17.
May 1999 and published by the Ministry of Justice on 7 July the same year. As
for the
new emblem, the badge in the new DSB flag is described as "a crown in white over
a white winged wheel." In fact, this is identical to the new logo of the DSB,
introduced after a complete overhaul of the DSB visual identity in 1998. It took
some time for this flag to introduced into actual use, about a year to be
precise.
Jan Oskar Engene, 4 January 2001
Not quite identical. The winged wheel in the flag appears to be moving
towards the pole, while the winged wheel in the logo (as seen on http://www.dsb.dk/
) seems to be moving to the right. Since we have this our tradition of depicting
flags with the pole to the left, the wheels appear mirrored.
Ole Andersen, 4 January 2001
Three examples of this flag, seen on television during the recent marriage of
Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Donaldson of Australia, clearly show the wing on
the hoist side of the wheel. The flag also is not swallowtail. This might simply
mean that you have 2 versions, one on land and one on sea.
Marc Pasquin, 16 May 2004
