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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

March 18, 2015August 27, 2015

The Full XP (British Railways’ Corporate Identity 1964-1986, part 1)

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March 4, 2015August 27, 2015

Modernism in Miniature (Durrington-on-Sea railway station, UK)

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February 25, 2015August 27, 2015

Snap! (Look-a-like Railway Stations)

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February 18, 2015August 19, 2020

Lions and Wheels (British Railways’ lion emblems, 1949-1964)

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February 11, 2015September 3, 2015

The Great Hall of Aluminum Wonders (Newark Penn Station, New Jersey, USA)

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December 17, 2014September 7, 2015

Christmas Special: Get Your Skates On (Starlight Express)

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December 10, 2014September 7, 2015

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

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November 19, 2014December 24, 2015

Roll Up! (The transport songs of The Beatles)

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October 8, 2014October 28, 2015

Vincent van Gogh: Transport Artist

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October 1, 2014October 28, 2015

Lost Beauty #8: The Palace of the Railroads (Pennsylvania Station, New York (NY), USA)

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September 3, 2014October 28, 2015

Wicked Wild West: the Grand Canyon’s Failed Railroads (Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)

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August 27, 2014October 28, 2015

Grand Design (Grand Canyon railroad depot, Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)

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August 13, 2014October 28, 2015

The Sky Full of Stars (Grand Central Terminal, New York (NY), USA)

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August 6, 2014September 29, 2015

Great White Stark (Surbiton station, London, UK)

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July 16, 2014December 24, 2015

A Deadman’s Tale (Unstoppable, dir. Tony Scott, 2010)

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July 9, 2014December 24, 2015

A Near-Perfect Union (Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles (CA), USA)

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June 18, 2014December 24, 2015

Castles, Chains and Tubes (bridges at Conwy, Wales, UK)

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May 14, 2014December 24, 2015

Along the Line, Blue and Gold (GNER’s corporate visual identity, Vignelli Associates, 1997)

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May 7, 2014December 24, 2015

Shaft! 5 – Poison Running Through my Trains (Blackfriars Northern ticket hall, London, UK)

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April 1, 2014April 23, 2016

Aesthetic Overhead Line Structures images go Public

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March 26, 2014November 21, 2016

Lost Beauty #6: Time Warp Terminal (Ocean Terminal, Southampton, UK)

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March 19, 2014March 11, 2016

Cook’s Friezer (Thomas Cook Building, Leicester, UK)

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March 5, 2014April 23, 2016

The Kraken Wakes (Liège-Guillemins, Liège, Belgium)

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February 12, 2014April 23, 2016

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

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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January 15, 2014June 15, 2016

Like Father, Like Son (the transport paintings of Camille and Lucien Pissarro)

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December 18, 2013September 15, 2015

Desire Lines (EIT/DfT/HS2 RIBA Competition for aesthetic railway overhead line structures)

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