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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)

Tag: transport and culture

July 8, 2015July 29, 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast

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March 11, 2015August 27, 2015

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

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December 17, 2014September 7, 2015

Christmas Special: Get Your Skates On (Starlight Express)

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January 15, 2014June 15, 2016

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

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October 23, 2013August 15, 2015

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

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September 4, 2013August 13, 2015

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

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August 14, 2013April 23, 2016

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

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August 7, 2013August 13, 2015

Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)

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July 18, 2013August 12, 2015

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

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June 2, 2013August 12, 2015

asides: Très Chic Trams / Gold Standard Metros

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May 22, 2013August 12, 2015

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

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May 8, 2013August 12, 2015

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

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April 24, 2013August 26, 2015

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

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March 22, 2013August 10, 2015

Sound of l’overground (SNCF Station Chimes, France)

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March 1, 2013August 10, 2015

Sing When You’re Driving (“Motorway” by Little Boots)

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February 27, 2013November 26, 2016

Once Upon a Train (Railway Myths and Legends)

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February 27, 2013August 10, 2015

Minimonorail

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February 13, 2013August 7, 2015

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

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February 6, 2013August 7, 2015

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

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January 16, 2013August 6, 2015

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

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January 9, 2013August 6, 2015

Adhesive-lickin’ Good (Transport on UK Stamps)

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January 2, 2013August 6, 2015

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

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December 27, 2012August 6, 2015

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

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December 19, 2012August 6, 2015

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

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December 11, 2012August 6, 2015

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

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November 28, 2012August 6, 2015

The Life Nouveau (Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, Vienna, Austria)

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