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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

August 10, 2016August 8, 2016

Artful Interchange (Graz Hauptbahnhof, Graz, Austria)

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August 3, 2016January 15, 2017

Copper Boxes (Signal Boxes, Basel, Switzerland)

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July 6, 2016January 23, 2017

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Pandrol Rail Clip

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June 8, 2016January 23, 2017

Park Life (The High Line, New York (NY), USA)

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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 4, 2016May 1, 2016

The Unexpected Cultural Significance of Dr Richard Beeching

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April 20, 2016April 18, 2016

Transport Adventures in Hong Kong (Airport Express corporate identity development 1993-98)

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April 6, 2016April 2, 2016

Eric Ravilious: Transport Magician

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March 2, 2016March 25, 2016

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: LSWR Boundary Marker

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December 23, 2015February 11, 2016

The Fe-Line (Nishi station, Japan)

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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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October 28, 2015October 8, 2015

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

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October 7, 2015September 27, 2015

Mile High Marvel (Union Station, Denver (Colorado), USA)

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September 30, 2015January 24, 2016

Alphonse Mucha: Transport Artist for Hire

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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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August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

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

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July 15, 2015August 25, 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)

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July 8, 2015July 29, 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast

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June 17, 2015August 23, 2015

The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains)

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June 10, 2015August 23, 2015

Lost Beauty #9: Hardwick’s Hall (the old Euston station, London, UK)

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May 27, 2015January 25, 2017

The Steel Forest (Estação do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal)

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April 29, 2015August 27, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Railway Telegraph Insulators

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April 22, 2015August 27, 2015

Greater Than the Sum of Great Parts (St Pancras International, 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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March 25, 2015August 28, 2015

The Decline and Fall of the Rail Blue Empire (British Railways’ corporate identity 1964-1986, part 2)

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