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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: London Underground

September 5, 2018August 27, 2018

The Long and Winding Road (Labyrinth, Mark Wallinger, 2013)

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February 7, 2018February 9, 2018

East Meets West Under the Streets of London (Mile End and Gants Hill Underground stations, London, UK)

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December 13, 2017December 12, 2017

Eduardo Paolozzi: Underground Artist

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October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

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

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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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May 31, 2017May 25, 2017

Absolute Block: the Transport Art of Gail Brodholt

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July 27, 2016January 23, 2017

It’s Big, But is it Clever? (Canary Wharf tube station, London, UK)

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February 10, 2016January 23, 2017

Box of Delight (Westminster Underground station, London, UK)

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January 6, 2016January 4, 2016

Travels with my Father (Johnston typeface, Edward Johnston)

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November 25, 2015November 3, 2015

Shaft! 6 – Shaft Goes Stylish (Jubilee Line Ventilation Shafts, London, UK)

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November 18, 2015November 18, 2015

Four Chimneys Good, Two Chimneys… (Lots Road Power Station, London, UK)

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November 4, 2015October 22, 2015

Reach for the Skies (55 Broadway, London, UK)

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August 5, 2015September 15, 2015

A Station of Two Halves (Southgate Underground and Bus Stations, London, UK)

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May 20, 2015August 26, 2015

In the Hollow Ground, Glass Walls of Blue (North Greenwich London Underground station, London, UK)

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December 10, 2014September 7, 2015

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

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May 21, 2014December 24, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: interior light fitting from Waterloo and City Line 1940 stock

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April 9, 2014March 11, 2016

Loughton Proud (Loughton station, Loughton, London, UK)

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February 12, 2014April 23, 2016

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

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February 5, 2014June 4, 2016

Concrete Cathedrals (Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground stations, London, UK)

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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November 20, 2013October 21, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: third rail insulator pot

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October 9, 2013August 13, 2015

The Green Agenda (Leslie Green Underground stations, London, UK)

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July 18, 2013August 12, 2015

aside: Tube to Bankside (Painting London Underground, Bankside Gallery, London, UK)

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May 15, 2013August 12, 2015

Trainfall (Skyfall, dir. Sam Mendes, 2012)

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April 24, 2013August 26, 2015

A Night at the Opera (Southwark Underground station, London, UK)

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January 9, 2013August 6, 2015

Adhesive-lickin’ Good (Transport on UK Stamps)

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