
Tag: transport and culture


The Gleaming Spire (Silica, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK)

Christmas Special: Get Your Skates On (Starlight Express)

Like Father, Like Son (the transport paintings of Camille and Lucien Pissarro)

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

The Many Lives of the Hogwarts Express (Transport from the World of Harry Potter)

Summer Special: the Ninky Nonk train (In the Night Garden, CBeebies, UK)

Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)
aside: Tube to Bankside (Painting London Underground, Bankside Gallery, London, UK)

asides: Très Chic Trams / Gold Standard Metros

The Light Fantastic (Heron Quays station, Docklands Light Railway, London, UK)

So Fast, it’s Just a Blur (Rain, Steam and Speed, by J.M.W.Turner)

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

Sound of l’overground (SNCF Station Chimes, France)
Sing When You’re Driving (“Motorway” by Little Boots)

Once Upon a Train (Railway Myths and Legends)

Minimonorail

Coach Class (Pramface, series 2 ep 6 “Grumpy and Target Boy”, BBC Three)

A Gay Colourful Read (Tootles the Taxi and Other Rhymes, by Joyce B. Clegg)

The Very Model of a Modern Modular Station (Network Rail Modular Railway Stations, UK)

Adhesive-lickin’ Good (Transport on UK Stamps)

The Font of All Knowledge (Gill Sans and British Railways signage)

The Beauty of Transport Holiday Special (Peppa Pig, ‘The Train Ride’, season 3 ep.18)

Bird of Paradise (Gare de Saint-Exupéry TGV, Lyon, France)

Winged Wonder (Markham Moor filling station / Little Chef, Nottinghamshire)
