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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: metros / tubes / undergrounds

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015

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

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November 4, 2015October 22, 2015

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

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August 5, 2015September 15, 2015

A Station of Two Halves (Southgate Underground and Bus Stations, London, UK)

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May 20, 2015August 26, 2015

In the Hollow Ground, Glass Walls of Blue (North Greenwich London Underground station, London, UK)

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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 10, 2014September 7, 2015

Voyages to the Interior (train and bus interiors, UK)

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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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September 17, 2014October 28, 2015

A Coffee Shop with a Tale to Tell (St Enoch Subway Station ticket office and company offices, Glasgow, UK)

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July 23, 2014December 24, 2015

Smooth Operator (Drassanes metro station, Barcelona, Spain)

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June 11, 2014December 24, 2015

20,000 Leagues Under the Streets (Arts et Metiers Metro station, Paris, France)

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June 4, 2014December 24, 2015

Hooray for Hollywood (Hollywood/Vine metro station, Los Angeles, USA)

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May 21, 2014December 24, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: interior light fitting from Waterloo and City Line 1940 stock

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April 9, 2014March 11, 2016

Loughton Proud (Loughton station, Loughton, London, UK)

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February 12, 2014April 23, 2016

Through a Glass, Divinely (stained glass at railway stations)

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February 5, 2014June 4, 2016

Concrete Cathedrals (Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground stations, London, UK)

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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December 4, 2013June 15, 2016

When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)

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November 20, 2013October 21, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: third rail insulator pot

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October 9, 2013August 13, 2015

The Green Agenda (Leslie Green Underground stations, London, UK)

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August 7, 2013August 13, 2015

Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)

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July 30, 2013August 13, 2015

aside: The Most Beautiful Metro in the World? (Riyadh Metro, Saudi Arabia)

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July 18, 2013August 12, 2015

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

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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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April 24, 2013August 26, 2015

A Night at the Opera (Southwark Underground station, London, 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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November 28, 2012August 6, 2015

The Life Nouveau (Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, Vienna, Austria)

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