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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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August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

The Other Stations (226 Garages and Service Stations, by Philip Butler)

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August 13, 2025August 18, 2025

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK)

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May 29, 2024May 28, 2024

The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK)

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October 4, 2023October 5, 2023

High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China)

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August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

Chemical Attraction (Hackney Wick station, London, UK)

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August 9, 2023August 9, 2023

Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland)

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July 26, 2023July 26, 2023

Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK)

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February 15, 2023February 19, 2023

R.I.P. W.C. (1930s Southern Railway toilets, Havant station, Hampshire, UK)

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November 9, 2022November 26, 2023

Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)

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October 12, 2022November 7, 2022

My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)

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February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)

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January 19, 2022August 21, 2025

A Fearsome Beauty (Cambridge North station, Cambridgeshire, UK)

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January 5, 2022January 3, 2022

A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)

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October 6, 2021October 11, 2021

Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)

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September 22, 2021September 20, 2021

Ace of Herts (Broxbourne Station, Hertfordshire, UK)

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September 8, 2021September 5, 2021

And Now, In Colour (Harlow Town station, Harlow, Essex)

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August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

Supernumerals (Budaörsi lakótelep bus terminal, Budaörs, Hungary)

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May 26, 2021May 25, 2021

The Return of Rail Alphabet (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 2)

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January 27, 2021January 25, 2021

Among the Creatures of the Night (Central Bus Station, Halle (Saale), Germany)

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January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

ISO 668 (Barneveld Noord station, The Netherlands)

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December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Ring Over the Water (Laguna Garzón Bridge, Uruguay)

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October 21, 2020November 16, 2020

Skip Stop (Otterington station, UK)

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June 10, 2020June 9, 2020

Another Case of the Disappearing Bus Station (Taunton Bus Station, Somerset, UK)

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April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

When 2 Become 1 (Tyne Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

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April 15, 2020April 15, 2020

White Tile Tunnels (Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels, London, UK)

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March 25, 2020March 27, 2020

“My God – It’s Full of Stars” (Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, Shanghai, China)

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March 11, 2020March 8, 2020

Championing Quality: Network Rail’s New Focus on Architecture and Design (Part 2)

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