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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)

Category: UK

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017

Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 1 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )

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August 23, 2017August 19, 2017

And Now, From Norwich (Norwich Bus Station, Norfolk, UK)

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August 16, 2017August 15, 2017

Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- )

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August 9, 2017August 7, 2017

Britain in the World? No thanks (British Airways’ 1997 corporate identity by Newell and Sorrell)

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August 2, 2017August 2, 2017

Barnstormer (Barnsley Interchange, South Yorkshire, UK)

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July 26, 2017July 26, 2017

Classical Stations (Whitby and Scarborough railway stations, North Yorkshire, UK)

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July 12, 2017July 12, 2017

The Wonderful World of Wood (Manchester Oxford Road station, Greater Manchester, UK)

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July 5, 2017July 4, 2017

The Regrettable Death and Strange Second Life of the Integrated Transport Smartcard

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June 28, 2017June 27, 2017

Lost Beauty #10: Hospital Case (Christ’s Hospital station, West Sussex, UK)

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June 14, 2017June 6, 2017

Marvellous Modern Shelters (Cross Houses and Fairy Cross bus shelters, UK)

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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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May 17, 2017May 17, 2017

Vernacular Spectacular: Bus Shelters Which Break the Mould

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May 10, 2017May 11, 2017

Glass Candy (Stratford DLR Station (High Level), London, UK)

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April 26, 2017April 19, 2017

All Hail! The London Black Cab, a Transport Icon

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April 19, 2017November 3, 2017

M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity)

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April 12, 2017April 10, 2017

Steamer Trading (Wemyss Bay station, Scotland)

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March 29, 2017March 23, 2017

Flight of the Concourse (Leeds station, West Yorkshire, UK)

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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 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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