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(The Oculus, New York (NY), USA)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/06/13/were-s-h-o-p-p-i-n-g-the-oculus-new-york-ny-usa/", "published_at": "2018-06-13T16:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb057965ac8", "title": "Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken (NJ), USA)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/05/30/breakfast-at-tiffanys-hoboken-terminal-hoboken-nj-usa/", "published_at": "2018-05-30T16:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb0588d8212", "title": "Tunnel Visions", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/05/16/tunnel-visions/", "published_at": "2018-05-16T16:00:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb05915d4b3", "title": "Eastern Hemispheres (Line A stations, Prague, Czech Republic)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/05/02/eastern-hemispheres-line-a-stations-prague-czech-republic/", "published_at": "2018-05-02T16:00:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb059fb35a0", "title": "Triangle (Bus station, Schaan, Liechenstein)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/04/25/triangle-bus-station-schaan-liechenstein/", "published_at": "2018-04-25T16:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb05ad98314", "title": "Supercruiser (Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, Hong Kong, China)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/04/11/supercruiser-kai-tak-cruise-terminal-hong-kong-china/", "published_at": "2018-04-11T16:00:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb05ae0dddd", "title": "Island Hopping (Island Line’s listed railway stations)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/03/28/island-hopping-island-lines-listed-railway-stations/", "published_at": "2018-03-28T16:00:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb05b8a4699", "title": "Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Pitlochry Station Drinking Fountain (Perth and Kinross, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/03/21/obscure-objects-of-transport-beauty-pitlochry-station-drinking-fountain-perth-and-kinross-uk/", "published_at": "2018-03-21T17:00:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dea1-af38-703e-8b02-dcb05c5d12d8", "title": "On Strategies for Making Brutalism Popular (Chatham Waterfront Bus Station, Kent, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/03/14/on-strategies-for-making-brutalism-popular-chatham-waterfront-bus-station-kent-uk/", "published_at": "2018-03-14T17:00:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bcffd1c20f", "title": "Orange Art Squeezed: The Overground’s Stalled Art Programme (London, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/03/07/%ef%bb%bforange-art-squeezed-the-overgrounds-stalled-art-programme-london-uk/", "published_at": "2018-03-07T17:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bcffea00b0", "title": "This Stride Into Our Solitude (Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/02/28/this-stride-into-our-solitude-humber-bridge-east-riding-of-yorkshire-north-lincolnshire-uk/", "published_at": "2018-02-28T17:00:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bd003490a4", "title": "The Longest Wait (Central Park Metrolink station (Rochdale line), Manchester, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/02/21/the-longest-wait-central-park-metrolink-station-manchester-uk/", "published_at": "2018-02-21T17:00:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bd006c1e91", "title": "Light Cones (Stratford Bus Station, London, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/02/14/light-cones-stratford-bus-station-london-uk/", "published_at": "2018-02-14T17:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bd012ea3ee", "title": "East Meets West Under the Streets of London (Mile End and Gants Hill Underground stations, London, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/02/07/east-meets-west-under-the-streets-of-london-mile-end-and-gants-hill-underground-stations-london-uk/", "published_at": "2018-02-07T17:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9c-72f7-a324-39bd0137fadd", "title": "To Enterprise a Railroad (Railway viaducts, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/01/31/to-enterprise-a-railroad-railway-viaducts-uk/", "published_at": "2018-01-31T17:00:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9f-7217-8b2d-9566bc814f65", "title": "The Lime-green Pain Rays of Münchner Freiheit Tram Station (Münchner Freiheit tram/bus station, Munich, Germany)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/01/24/the-lime-green-pain-rays-of-munchner-freiheit-tram-station-munchner-freiheit-bus-tram-station-munich-germany/", "published_at": "2018-01-24T17:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9f-7217-8b2d-9566bccda01a", "title": "Electric Light Omnibus (Bus garage, Montague Place, Brighton, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/01/17/electric-light-omnibus-bus-garage-montague-place-brighton-uk/", "published_at": "2018-01-17T17:00:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deb9-3c9f-7217-8b2d-9566bdc8870d", "title": "Neapolitan Delight (Naples Marine Terminal)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2018/01/10/neapolitan-delight-naples-marine-terminal/", "published_at": "2018-01-10T17:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be3cc5f4b", "title": "Seasonal Special: The Great Pretender (Ivor the Engine, ITV and BBC, 1959 – c.1977)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/12/20/seasonal-special-the-great-pretender-ivor-the-engine-itv-and-bbc-1959-c-1977/", "published_at": "2017-12-20T17:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be444bdcc", "title": "Eduardo Paolozzi: Underground Artist", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/12/13/eduardo-paolozzi-underground-artist/", "published_at": "2017-12-13T17:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be537aabb", "title": "Charles Dickens: Transport Ghostwriter", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/12/06/charles-dickens-transport-ghostwriter/", "published_at": "2017-12-06T17:00:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be62f2677", "title": "Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – )", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/11/29/red-hot-virgin-trains-east-coast-branding-2015/", "published_at": "2017-11-29T17:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be7089e1a", "title": "The Terminal Terminal (Jersey Airport 1937 terminal)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/11/22/the-terminal-terminal-jersey-airport-1937-terminal/", "published_at": "2017-11-22T17:00:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be783f3f3", "title": "Postmaster (PostAuto station, Chur, Switzerland)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/11/15/postmaster-postauto-station-chur-switzerland/", "published_at": "2017-11-15T17:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be7d601c6", "title": "Lens Lens (Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth-Saltash, Devon/Cornwall, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/11/08/lens-lens-royal-albert-bridge-plymouth-saltash-devoncornwall-uk/", "published_at": "2017-11-08T17:00:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be7fe3eae", "title": "End of the Bus Lane (Vauxhall Bus Stations, Existing and Proposed, London, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/11/01/end-of-the-bus-lane-vauxhall-bus-stations-existing-and-proposed-london-uk/", "published_at": "2017-11-01T17:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0decc-28a9-7116-9167-499be8f1d815", "title": "Taking Wing (Elmdon Air Terminal, Birmingham, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/10/25/taking-wing-elmdon-air-terminal-birmingham-uk/", "published_at": "2017-10-25T16:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d9990b2e87d", "title": "Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/10/18/parisine-paris-johnston-london-parisine-typeface-by-jean-francois-porchez/", "published_at": "2017-10-18T16:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d99916b00e0", "title": "The Train That Never Was: Orient Express, A Transport Icon", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/10/11/the-train-that-never-was-orient-express-a-transport-icon/", "published_at": "2017-10-11T16:00:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d999220b594", "title": "Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – )", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/10/04/look-listen-smell-deutsche-bahn-corporate-identity-2004/", "published_at": "2017-10-04T16:00:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d9992d39953", "title": "Into Battle (Battle station, East Sussex, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/09/27/into-battle-battle-station-east-sussex-uk/", "published_at": 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"01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d99955fdbe5", "title": "Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 1 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/08/30/corporatisation-and-its-undoing-part-1-visual-identities-of-britains-big-five-transport-operators-on-the-railway-1997/", "published_at": "2017-08-30T16:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dee2-c0de-7234-bb15-1d99962ecd43", "title": "And Now, From Norwich (Norwich Bus Station, Norfolk, UK)", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/08/23/and-now-from-norwich-norwich-bus-station-norfolk-uk/", "published_at": "2017-08-23T16:00:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0def8-67ec-73ef-bd5d-febd5664e5da", "title": "Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- )", "url": "https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/08/16/crimson-tide-national-express-west-midlands-visual-identity-2015/", "published_at": "2017-08-16T16:00:23+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Invisible Masterpieces – the Big Four’s Stations 1923-47 (and a book all about them)original ↗
4 Jan 2026

2025

Union Flag Blues: the Branding of Great British Railwaysoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2025
Announcing ‘A Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection’original ↗
3 Dec 2025
The Other Stations (226 Garages and Service Stations, by Philip Butler)original ↗
25 Aug 2025
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK)original ↗
13 Aug 2025
A Change of Course – Honing Network Rail’s Wayfinding Guidanceoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2025

2024

Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))original ↗
27 Nov 2024
The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK)original ↗
29 May 2024

2023

High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China)original ↗
4 Oct 2023
Chemical Attraction (Hackney Wick station, London, UK)original ↗
23 Aug 2023
Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland)original ↗
9 Aug 2023
Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK)original ↗
26 Jul 2023
R.I.P. W.C. (1930s Southern Railway toilets, Havant station, Hampshire, UK)original ↗
15 Feb 2023

2022

In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)original ↗
14 Dec 2022
Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)original ↗
9 Nov 2022
My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)original ↗
12 Oct 2022
Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)original ↗
9 Feb 2022
A Fearsome Beauty (Cambridge North station, Cambridgeshire, UK)original ↗
19 Jan 2022
A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)original ↗
5 Jan 2022

2021

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streetsoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2021
Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)original ↗
6 Oct 2021
Ace of Herts (Broxbourne Station, Hertfordshire, UK)original ↗
22 Sept 2021
And Now, In Colour (Harlow Town station, Harlow, Essex)original ↗
8 Sept 2021
Supernumerals (Budaörsi lakótelep bus terminal, Budaörs, Hungary)original ↗
25 Aug 2021
The Return of Rail Alphabet (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 2)original ↗
26 May 2021
The Way Forward (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 1)original ↗
19 May 2021
Among the Creatures of the Night (Central Bus Station, Halle (Saale), Germany)original ↗
27 Jan 2021
ISO 668 (Barneveld Noord station, The Netherlands)original ↗
13 Jan 2021

2020

Ring Over the Water (Laguna Garzón Bridge, Uruguay)original ↗
30 Dec 2020
Skip Stop (Otterington station, UK)original ↗
21 Oct 2020
Another Case of the Disappearing Bus Station (Taunton Bus Station, Somerset, UK)original ↗
10 Jun 2020
Braniff International and The End of the Plain Planeoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
When 2 Become 1 (Tyne Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)original ↗
29 Apr 2020
White Tile Tunnels (Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels, London, UK)original ↗
15 Apr 2020
“My God – It’s Full of Stars” (Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, Shanghai, China)original ↗
25 Mar 2020
Bonus content: The Beauty of Transport book proposaloriginal ↗
23 Mar 2020
Championing Quality: Network Rail’s New Focus on Architecture and Design (Part 2)original ↗
11 Mar 2020
Championing Quality: Network Rail’s New Focus on Architecture and Design (Part 1)original ↗
4 Mar 2020
My Fair Lady (London Bridge station, London, UK)original ↗
19 Feb 2020
Unblocking the Bottleneck (Reading Station, Reading, UK)original ↗
29 Jan 2020
Bristol Fashion (Bristol Temple Meads station, Bristol, UK)original ↗
8 Jan 2020

2019

Lay Down the Hard Lines (Tottenham Hale Bus Interchange, London, UK)original ↗
18 Dec 2019
Prime Meridian (Meridian Water station, London, UK)original ↗
4 Dec 2019
Cathedral Stations of Paris’s RER E (Haussmann – Saint-Lazare and Magenta, Paris, France)original ↗
20 Nov 2019
Send Me to Coventry (Coventry Station, West Midlands, UK)original ↗
30 Oct 2019
The Garden Pavilion of London’s Buses (West Croydon Bus Station, Greater London, UK)original ↗
9 Oct 2019
The Night Garden (Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf Crossrail station, London, UK)original ↗
29 May 2019
Locks, to Block or Not (The Love Locks Phenomenon, Worldwide)original ↗
17 Apr 2019
We Live and Die by Pretty Lies (Lost Beauties of Rail, Road and Air)original ↗
20 Mar 2019
Seasonal Special: Transport Trendsetter Sindyoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2019

2018

Redefining a Modern Classic (Railfreight Distribution 1993 Visual Identity)original ↗
12 Dec 2018
Bend it Like Dobson (Newcastle station, Tyne and Wear, UK)original ↗
28 Nov 2018
We Could Show You Incredible Things (the Beauty and Mystery of Railway Station Adoption)original ↗
14 Nov 2018
Arts & Crafts, Shelters & Bridges & Memorials (the Transport Architecture of Edwin Lutyens)original ↗
31 Oct 2018
Lorenzo and the Waves (Santander Marine Terminal, Spain)original ↗
17 Oct 2018
Location, location, location (Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo (NY), USA)original ↗
3 Oct 2018
Going Up (Michigan Central Station, Detroit (MI), USA)original ↗
19 Sept 2018
The Long and Winding Road (Labyrinth, Mark Wallinger, 2013)original ↗
5 Sept 2018
Skin of Glass: The Transport Architecture and Influence of Ludwig Mies van der Roheoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2018
Mirror Finish (Birmingham New Street station, West Midlands, UK)original ↗
8 Aug 2018
White on Black and Read All Over: New York City Subway Signage and Other Design Highlights (New York (NY), USA)original ↗
25 Jul 2018
Hypercube (Fulton Center, New York (NY), USA)original ↗
11 Jul 2018
The Cat’s Whiskers (Huddersfield Railway Station, West Yorkshire, UK)original ↗
27 Jun 2018
We’re S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G. (The Oculus, New York (NY), USA)original ↗
13 Jun 2018
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken (NJ), USA)original ↗
30 May 2018
Tunnel Visionsoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
Eastern Hemispheres (Line A stations, Prague, Czech Republic)original ↗
2 May 2018
Triangle (Bus station, Schaan, Liechenstein)original ↗
25 Apr 2018
Supercruiser (Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, Hong Kong, China)original ↗
11 Apr 2018
Island Hopping (Island Line’s listed railway stations)original ↗
28 Mar 2018
Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Pitlochry Station Drinking Fountain (Perth and Kinross, UK)original ↗
21 Mar 2018
On Strategies for Making Brutalism Popular (Chatham Waterfront Bus Station, Kent, UK)original ↗
14 Mar 2018
Orange Art Squeezed: The Overground’s Stalled Art Programme (London, UK)original ↗
7 Mar 2018
This Stride Into Our Solitude (Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire, UK)original ↗
28 Feb 2018
The Longest Wait (Central Park Metrolink station (Rochdale line), Manchester, UK)original ↗
21 Feb 2018
Light Cones (Stratford Bus Station, London, UK)original ↗
14 Feb 2018
East Meets West Under the Streets of London (Mile End and Gants Hill Underground stations, London, UK)original ↗
7 Feb 2018
To Enterprise a Railroad (Railway viaducts, UK)original ↗
31 Jan 2018
The Lime-green Pain Rays of Münchner Freiheit Tram Station (Münchner Freiheit tram/bus station, Munich, Germany)original ↗
24 Jan 2018
Electric Light Omnibus (Bus garage, Montague Place, Brighton, UK)original ↗
17 Jan 2018
Neapolitan Delight (Naples Marine Terminal)original ↗
10 Jan 2018

2017

Seasonal Special: The Great Pretender (Ivor the Engine, ITV and BBC, 1959 – c.1977)original ↗
20 Dec 2017
Eduardo Paolozzi: Underground Artistoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2017
Charles Dickens: Transport Ghostwriteroriginal ↗
6 Dec 2017
Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – )original ↗
29 Nov 2017
The Terminal Terminal (Jersey Airport 1937 terminal)original ↗
22 Nov 2017
Postmaster (PostAuto station, Chur, Switzerland)original ↗
15 Nov 2017
Lens Lens (Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth-Saltash, Devon/Cornwall, UK)original ↗
8 Nov 2017
End of the Bus Lane (Vauxhall Bus Stations, Existing and Proposed, London, UK)original ↗
1 Nov 2017
Taking Wing (Elmdon Air Terminal, Birmingham, UK)original ↗
25 Oct 2017
Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)original ↗
18 Oct 2017
The Train That Never Was: Orient Express, A Transport Iconoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2017
Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – )original ↗
4 Oct 2017
Into Battle (Battle station, East Sussex, UK)original ↗
27 Sept 2017
So Hard (The Hard Interchange, Portsmouth, UK)original ↗
20 Sept 2017
Swipesy Cakewalk (Millennium “Wobbly Bridge” Footbridge, London, UK)original ↗
13 Sept 2017
Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 2 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )original ↗
6 Sept 2017
Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 1 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )original ↗
30 Aug 2017
And Now, From Norwich (Norwich Bus Station, Norfolk, UK)original ↗
23 Aug 2017
Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- )original ↗
16 Aug 2017
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