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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)

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 24, 2014September 6, 2020

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

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September 17, 2014October 28, 2015

A Coffee Shop with a Tale to Tell (St Enoch Subway Station ticket office and company offices, Glasgow, UK)

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September 10, 2014October 28, 2015

Where the Sixties Never Stopped Swinging (Gander International Airport, Canada)

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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 20, 2014March 23, 2020

Tipping the Wink (Gateshead Millennium Bridge a.k.a the Winking Eye Bridge, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK)

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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 30, 2014October 28, 2015

Treasures in the Park (bus shelters, Yosemite National Park (CA), USA)

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July 23, 2014December 24, 2015

Smooth Operator (Drassanes metro station, Barcelona, Spain)

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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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July 7, 2014December 24, 2015

Return to Vauxhall Cross (Vauxhall bus station, London, UK)

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July 2, 2014December 24, 2015

Vaulting Ambition (Stockwell Bus Garage, London, UK)

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June 25, 2014November 21, 2016

Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Mandalay Again (Mandalay Bay Tram, Las Vegas (NV), USA)

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June 18, 2014December 24, 2015

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

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June 11, 2014December 24, 2015

20,000 Leagues Under the Streets (Arts et Metiers Metro station, Paris, France)

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June 4, 2014December 24, 2015

Hooray for Hollywood (Hollywood/Vine metro station, Los Angeles, USA)

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May 28, 2014December 24, 2015

The Beauty of Transport is on Holiday

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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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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 30, 2014November 3, 2015

Lost Beauty #7: Fading Like a Flower (Zuidtangent bus shelters, North Holland, Netherlands)

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April 23, 2014March 11, 2016

Plastic Fantastic (The Amazing Whale Jaw, Hoofddorp, Netherlands)

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April 16, 2014March 11, 2016

The Peerless Pier (Millbank Millennium Pier, London, UK)

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