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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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March 22, 2017March 18, 2017

The Accidental Railway Station (Ashford International, Kent, UK)  

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March 15, 2017March 15, 2017

Don’t Give in to Their Goodbyes, Northern Stars (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1995-2017)

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March 1, 2017December 1, 2017

Local Heroes (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1970-1994)

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February 22, 2017February 21, 2017

First Flight (Croydon Airport Terminal, London, UK)

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February 15, 2017February 13, 2017

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

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February 8, 2017January 30, 2017

Shaft! 8 – Shaft on the Tyne is All Mine (Tyne Tunnel ventilation shaft buildings)

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February 1, 2017February 1, 2017

The Dead Hand of State Design (State-sponsored visual identities on Britain’s railways, 2000-)

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January 25, 2017January 23, 2017

Shaft! 7 – Shaft Across the Mersey (Kingsway Tunnel Ventilation Shaft Buildings, Liverpool and Wallasey, UK)

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January 18, 2017January 19, 2017

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: The Bundy Clock

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January 11, 2017January 19, 2017

Robert Stephenson’s Aerial Tubeway (Britannia Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, UK)

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January 4, 2017January 4, 2017

Not Just Any Old Iron (Great Malvern station, Worcestershire, UK)

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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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December 14, 2016December 19, 2016

A Station Fit for a King (Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, UK)

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December 7, 2016January 15, 2017

In Case of Emergency, Open Box (AA and RAC telephone boxes, UK)

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November 30, 2016January 15, 2017

The Truth, or Something Beautiful (on the confusion of public transport with tourism, history or character)

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November 23, 2016December 19, 2016

Mr Carden’s Home for Peculiar Transport (Patcham Pylons, Brighton, UK)

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November 16, 2016January 15, 2017

Beautiful Nightmare (Santa Maria Novella station, Florence, Italy)

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November 9, 2016January 1, 2017

The Beauty of Transport has been Nationalised (Somewhat to my Surprise)

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November 2, 2016February 19, 2018

Mainlining Style (Midland Mainline visual identity 1996-2004)

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October 26, 2016October 24, 2016

Mad as a Box of Tudor (Furness Railway signal box, Carnforth, Lancashire, UK)

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October 19, 2016January 1, 2017

Grand Hotel (Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire, UK)

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October 12, 2016January 25, 2017

The Men from the Future (Helsinki Central station, Finland)

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October 5, 2016February 11, 2017

The Train on Kaleidoscope Lines (British passenger railway post-privatisation visual identities)

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September 28, 2016January 1, 2017

The Tunnel We Love (Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK)

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September 21, 2016September 17, 2016

House of Train (Liverpool Road station, Manchester, UK)

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September 14, 2016April 19, 2017

One Tudor Manor House, Complete With Garden Airport (Speke Airport, Liverpool, UK)

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September 7, 2016September 7, 2016

Safety First (The Permanent Way, by David Hare)

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