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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

October 2, 2013August 13, 2015

Electric Dreams (Woking station and Electrical Control Room, Surrey, UK)

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September 25, 2013August 26, 2015

The Saving of a Brutal Bus Behemoth (Preston Central Bus Station and Car Park, Preston, UK)

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September 18, 2013August 13, 2015

Map Me Gorgeous (Bus and Train Maps, Best Impressions, UK)

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September 11, 2013January 1, 2017

Gimme Stylish Shelter (Art Deco Tram Shelters, UK)

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September 4, 2013August 13, 2015

The Many Lives of the Hogwarts Express (Transport from the World of Harry Potter)

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August 28, 2013August 13, 2015

Close Encounters of the Forth Kind (Forth Bridge, Queensferry, UK)

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August 21, 2013August 13, 2015

Spin me Right Round (Red Hill filling station, Leicestershire, UK)

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July 31, 2013August 13, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Reflective Road Studs

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July 18, 2013August 12, 2015

aside: Tube to Bankside (Painting London Underground, Bankside Gallery, London, UK)

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July 17, 2013August 9, 2016

Cradles for the Liners of the Skies (airship sheds, Cardington, UK)

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July 10, 2013January 31, 2019

Maws the Pity (Greyfriars bus station, Northampton, UK)

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July 3, 2013August 12, 2015

Shaft! 3 – Shaft in London (Blackwall Tunnel, London, UK)

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June 26, 2013August 12, 2015

Lost Beauty #4: The Railway Terminus, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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June 5, 2013August 12, 2015

Liner on the Line (Wimbledon “A” signal box, London, UK)

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May 29, 2013August 12, 2015

Streamline Dreams (Streamline Moderne on the railways)

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May 22, 2013August 12, 2015

The Light Fantastic (Heron Quays station, Docklands Light Railway, London, UK)

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May 15, 2013August 12, 2015

Trainfall (Skyfall, dir. Sam Mendes, 2012)

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May 8, 2013August 12, 2015

So Fast, it’s Just a Blur (Rain, Steam and Speed, by J.M.W.Turner)

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May 1, 2013January 31, 2019

War Baby (Bishopstone station, East Sussex, UK)

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April 24, 2013August 26, 2015

A Night at the Opera (Southwark Underground station, London, UK)

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April 17, 2013January 18, 2020

Virtuous Circles (Railtrack major station graphic identities, Lloyd Northover, UK)

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April 10, 2013August 10, 2015

Lost Beauties #2 and #3: If Mad Men Flew Scottish Style (Glasgow airports, UK)

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April 3, 2013August 10, 2015

The Timetables They’re A-changing (2013 Timetable Leaflets, South West Trains, UK)

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March 27, 2013August 10, 2015

A Thoroughly Modern Museum (Riverside Museum of Transport and car 39T, Glasgow, UK)

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March 20, 2013August 10, 2015

Lost Beauty #1: The One that Sailed Away (King’s Cross International, London, UK)

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March 13, 2013August 10, 2015

Tops for Bottoms (Public Transport Bench Design and Styling)

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February 27, 2013November 26, 2016

Once Upon a Train (Railway Myths and Legends)

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