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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)

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November 3, 2021November 8, 2021

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Ring Over the Water (Laguna Garzón Bridge, Uruguay)

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October 31, 2018November 2, 2018

Arts & Crafts, Shelters & Bridges & Memorials (the Transport Architecture of Edwin Lutyens)

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May 16, 2018May 11, 2018

Tunnel Visions

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February 28, 2018March 1, 2018

This Stride Into Our Solitude (Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire, UK)

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May 31, 2017May 25, 2017

Absolute Block: the Transport Art of Gail Brodholt

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March 8, 2017February 26, 2017

Shaft! 9 – Shaft Goes Daan the East End (Rotherhithe Tunnel, London, UK)

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February 15, 2017February 13, 2017

Highway/Art Intersection (Intersection Repairs, Portland (OR), USA)

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February 8, 2017January 30, 2017

Shaft! 8 – Shaft on the Tyne is All Mine (Tyne Tunnel ventilation shaft buildings)

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January 25, 2017January 23, 2017

Shaft! 7 – Shaft Across the Mersey (Kingsway Tunnel Ventilation Shaft Buildings, Liverpool and Wallasey, UK)

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December 14, 2016December 19, 2016

A Station Fit for a King (Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, UK)

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November 23, 2016December 19, 2016

Mr Carden’s Home for Peculiar Transport (Patcham Pylons, Brighton, UK)

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August 24, 2016August 22, 2016

Premium Unleaded Style (Fina 2010 filling stations by Samyn and Partners, Belgium and The Netherlands)

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July 20, 2016July 12, 2016

Sparkling Diamonds (Welbeck Street multi-storey car park, London, UK)

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April 6, 2016April 2, 2016

Eric Ravilious: Transport Magician

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March 16, 2016March 5, 2016

Beautiful Robots, Dancing Alone (Millau Viaduct, France)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

Type in the Fast Lane (FHWA Series typeface, USA)

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July 15, 2015August 25, 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)

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June 3, 2015August 23, 2015

Tower Power (Forton Services, Lancashire, 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 3, 2014October 26, 2019

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

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November 19, 2014December 24, 2015

Roll Up! (The transport songs of The Beatles)

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September 24, 2014September 6, 2020

Of Faeries and Highway Engineers (Table des Pions, Pleinmont, Bailiwick of Guernsey)

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June 18, 2014December 24, 2015

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

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October 23, 2013August 15, 2015

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

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August 21, 2013August 13, 2015

Spin me Right Round (Red Hill filling station, Leicestershire, UK)

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July 31, 2013August 13, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Reflective Road Studs

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