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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

December 18, 2013September 15, 2015

An Art Gallery in Your Pocket (timetable covers, Tandem Design, UK)

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November 27, 2013June 15, 2016

Skyline, Passion, Union Terminal (Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)

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November 20, 2013October 21, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: third rail insulator pot

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November 6, 2013June 15, 2016

Glaze Amaze (tiled railway maps of the UK)

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October 23, 2013August 15, 2015

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

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October 2, 2013August 13, 2015

Electric Dreams (Woking station and Electrical Control Room, Surrey, 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 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 14, 2013April 23, 2016

Summer Special: the Ninky Nonk train (In the Night Garden, CBeebies, UK)

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July 24, 2013August 12, 2015

Rivers of Light (Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

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June 26, 2013August 12, 2015

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

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June 19, 2013August 20, 2020

Vive Versailles! Vive le RER! (RER Line C promotional wraps, Paris, France)

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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 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 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 22, 2013August 10, 2015

Sound of l’overground (SNCF Station Chimes, France)

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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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February 20, 2013August 10, 2015

Shaft! 2 – The Return of Shaft (Kilsby tunnel, Northamptonshire, UK)

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February 14, 2013August 7, 2015

An Elephant in South London (Waterloo International station, London, UK)

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January 30, 2013August 6, 2015

The Reign of Spain (Madrid and Seville AVE stations)

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