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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

July 20, 2016July 12, 2016

Sparkling Diamonds (Welbeck Street multi-storey car park, London, UK)

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July 13, 2016June 29, 2016

Pump It Up: the Lost Art of Petrol Pump Style (Manor Road Garage, East Preston, UK)

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June 29, 2016June 30, 2016

Seeing Red: The Routemaster Bus, a Transport Icon

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June 22, 2016January 23, 2017

Back to Blackburn (Blackburn bus station, Blackburn, UK)

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June 1, 2016February 11, 2017

Flying Bananas: InterCity 125, a Transport Icon

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May 25, 2016June 15, 2016

The St Pancras of the Tyne & Wear Metro (Tynemouth station, UK)

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May 18, 2016May 17, 2016

The Bus Station Now Arriving (the fall and rise of British bus station design)

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May 4, 2016May 1, 2016

The Unexpected Cultural Significance of Dr Richard Beeching

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April 13, 2016April 18, 2016

Fly the Formal Skies (BOAC corporate identity 1946-1974)

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April 6, 2016April 2, 2016

Eric Ravilious: Transport Magician

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March 9, 2016May 21, 2016

Flying the Flag (beautiful, and not-so-beautiful, British bus stop flags)

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March 2, 2016March 25, 2016

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: LSWR Boundary Marker

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February 17, 2016February 18, 2016

Fallen Angels: Concorde, a Transport Icon

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February 10, 2016January 23, 2017

Box of Delight (Westminster Underground station, London, UK)

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January 6, 2016January 4, 2016

Travels with my Father (Johnston typeface, Edward Johnston)

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December 16, 2015December 11, 2017

Big Blue (Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough, UK)

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December 9, 2015August 30, 2017

The Rolling Art Galleries of Network SouthEast (Edward Pond murals and NSE route badges)

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December 2, 2015November 3, 2015

The Upside Down Airport (London Stansted Airport, UK)

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November 25, 2015November 3, 2015

Shaft! 6 – Shaft Goes Stylish (Jubilee Line Ventilation Shafts, London, UK)

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November 18, 2015November 18, 2015

Four Chimneys Good, Two Chimneys… (Lots Road Power Station, London, UK)

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November 11, 2015October 22, 2015

Power to the People (Tramway Generating Station, Bristol, UK)

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November 4, 2015October 22, 2015

Reach for the Skies (55 Broadway, London, UK)

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October 28, 2015October 8, 2015

The Big Box (Birmingham New Street signal box, UK)

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September 23, 2015September 23, 2015

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

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September 9, 2015June 13, 2020

Three Shades of Grey (Railfreight 1987 corporate identity, Roundel Design Group, UK)

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September 2, 2015August 29, 2015

Baby Brutalism (Concrete bus shelters, Lewis, UK)

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August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Papering Over the Cracks (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, UK)

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