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The Beauty of Transport

Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so)

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January 4, 2026January 4, 2026

Invisible Masterpieces – the Big Four’s Stations 1923-47 (and a book all about them)

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August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

The Other Stations (226 Garages and Service Stations, by Philip Butler)

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November 14, 2018November 12, 2018

We Could Show You Incredible Things (the Beauty and Mystery of Railway Station Adoption)

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March 7, 2018March 4, 2018

Orange Art Squeezed: The Overground’s Stalled Art Programme (London, UK)

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December 20, 2017December 21, 2017

Seasonal Special: The Great Pretender (Ivor the Engine, ITV and BBC, 1959 – c.1977)

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December 13, 2017December 12, 2017

Eduardo Paolozzi: Underground Artist

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December 6, 2017December 6, 2017

Charles Dickens: Transport Ghostwriter

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October 11, 2017October 17, 2017

The Train That Never Was: Orient Express, A Transport Icon

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June 7, 2017May 31, 2017

Turning the Supertanker (RDG’s Britain Runs on Rail campaign)

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May 31, 2017May 25, 2017

Absolute Block: the Transport Art of Gail Brodholt

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February 15, 2017February 13, 2017

Highway/Art Intersection (Intersection Repairs, Portland (OR), USA)

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December 21, 2016December 24, 2016

Seasonal Special: Everything I Needed to Know About Urban Transport Planning I (could have) Learned from Watching “The Simpsons”…

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September 7, 2016September 7, 2016

Safety First (The Permanent Way, by David Hare)

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July 6, 2016January 23, 2017

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Pandrol Rail Clip

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April 6, 2016April 2, 2016

Eric Ravilious: Transport Magician

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December 23, 2015February 11, 2016

The Fe-Line (Nishi station, Japan)

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September 30, 2015January 24, 2016

Alphonse Mucha: Transport Artist for Hire

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September 23, 2015September 23, 2015

The Ads Have It (British train and bus TV adverts)

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July 15, 2015August 25, 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)

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July 8, 2015July 29, 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast

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April 1, 2015August 27, 2015

SOS Mr Tracy, the Transport World is Falling (Transport from the World of Thunderbirds)

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December 17, 2014September 7, 2015

Christmas Special: Get Your Skates On (Starlight Express)

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November 26, 2014December 24, 2015

Standing on the Platform and Looking Up at the Waves (Toledo metro station, Naples, Italy)

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October 8, 2014October 28, 2015

Vincent van Gogh: Transport Artist

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July 16, 2014December 24, 2015

A Deadman’s Tale (Unstoppable, dir. Tony Scott, 2010)

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March 19, 2014March 11, 2016

Cook’s Friezer (Thomas Cook Building, Leicester, UK)

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January 15, 2014June 15, 2016

Like Father, Like Son (the transport paintings of Camille and Lucien Pissarro)

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