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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)

September 23, 2015September 23, 2015

The Ads Have It (British train and bus TV adverts)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

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

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September 9, 2015June 13, 2020

Three Shades of Grey (Railfreight 1987 corporate identity, Roundel Design Group, UK)

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September 2, 2015August 29, 2015

Baby Brutalism (Concrete bus shelters, Lewis, UK)

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August 26, 2015August 26, 2015

The Wisdom of Crowds (The Luchtsingel, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

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August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Papering Over the Cracks (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, 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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July 29, 2015August 25, 2015

Come in to my Webb (Webb Bridge, Melbourne, Australia)

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July 22, 2015August 25, 2015

Streets Ahead, Inside (Nils Ericson Terminal, Gothenburg, Sweden)

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July 15, 2015August 25, 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)

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July 8, 2015July 29, 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast

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July 1, 2015January 25, 2017

Space Station (El Intercambiador de Transportes de La Laguna, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain)

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June 24, 2015August 26, 2015

White-painted Wonders (Streamline Moderne bus shelters, England)

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June 17, 2015August 23, 2015

The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains)

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June 10, 2015August 23, 2015

Lost Beauty #9: Hardwick’s Hall (the old Euston station, London, UK)

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June 3, 2015August 23, 2015

Tower Power (Forton Services, Lancashire, UK)

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May 27, 2015January 25, 2017

The Steel Forest (Estação do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal)

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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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May 13, 2015October 26, 2019

On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet typeface, Margaret Calvert/Jock Kinneir, UK)

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May 6, 2015August 25, 2015

Tile Style (São Bento railway station, Porto, Portugal)

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April 29, 2015August 27, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Railway Telegraph Insulators

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April 22, 2015August 27, 2015

Greater Than the Sum of Great Parts (St Pancras International, London, UK)

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April 15, 2015January 31, 2019

21st Century Waterwheel (The Falkirk Wheel, Stirling, UK)

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April 8, 2015August 27, 2015

The Extraordinary Second Life of the Anderton Boat Lift (Cheshire, 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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March 25, 2015August 28, 2015

The Decline and Fall of the Rail Blue Empire (British Railways’ corporate identity 1964-1986, part 2)

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March 18, 2015August 27, 2015

The Full XP (British Railways’ Corporate Identity 1964-1986, part 1)

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