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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: railways

November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – )

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November 15, 2017November 13, 2017

Postmaster (PostAuto station, Chur, Switzerland)

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November 8, 2017November 3, 2017

Lens Lens (Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth-Saltash, Devon/Cornwall, UK)

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October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)

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October 11, 2017October 17, 2017

The Train That Never Was: Orient Express, A Transport Icon

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October 4, 2017October 2, 2017

Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – )

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September 27, 2017September 27, 2017

Into Battle (Battle station, East Sussex, UK)

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September 6, 2017September 5, 2017

Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 2 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )

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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 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 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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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 1, 2017February 1, 2017

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

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January 4, 2017January 4, 2017

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

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December 14, 2016December 19, 2016

A Station Fit for a King (Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, 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 16, 2016January 15, 2017

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

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November 2, 2016February 19, 2018

Mainlining Style (Midland Mainline visual identity 1996-2004)

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