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2015

They Used to Shout our Name, Now they Whisper it (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, UK, part 2)original ↗

19 Aug 2015

Papering Over the Cracks (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, UK)original ↗

12 Aug 2015

A Station of Two Halves (Southgate Underground and Bus Stations, London, UK)original ↗

5 Aug 2015

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

29 Jul 2015

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

22 Jul 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)original ↗

15 Jul 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast original ↗

8 Jul 2015

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

1 Jul 2015

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

24 Jun 2015

The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains)original ↗

17 Jun 2015

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

10 Jun 2015

Tower Power (Forton Services, Lancashire, UK)original ↗

3 Jun 2015

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

27 May 2015

In the Hollow Ground, Glass Walls of Blue (North Greenwich London Underground station, London, UK)original ↗

20 May 2015

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

13 May 2015

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

6 May 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Railway Telegraph Insulators original ↗

29 Apr 2015

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

22 Apr 2015

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

15 Apr 2015

The Extraordinary Second Life of the Anderton Boat Lift (Cheshire, UK)original ↗

8 Apr 2015

SOS Mr Tracy, the Transport World is Falling (Transport from the World of Thunderbirds)original ↗

1 Apr 2015

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

25 Mar 2015

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

18 Mar 2015

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

11 Mar 2015

Modernism in Miniature (Durrington-on-Sea railway station, UK)original ↗

4 Mar 2015

Snap! (Look-a-like Railway Stations)original ↗

25 Feb 2015

Lions and Wheels (British Railways’ lion emblems, 1949-1964)original ↗

18 Feb 2015

The Great Hall of Aluminum Wonders (Newark Penn Station, New Jersey, USA)original ↗

11 Feb 2015

Let Slip the Dogs, part 2 (Surviving Greyhound Terminals of W S Arrasmith, USA)original ↗

4 Feb 2015

Let Slip the Dogs, part 1 (Surviving Greyhound Terminals of W S Arrasmith, USA)original ↗

28 Jan 2015

Failing The Grade? (Vauxhall Bus Station, London, UK)original ↗

21 Jan 2015

Country Strong, part 2 (the London Country Bus garages of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, UK)original ↗

14 Jan 2015

Country Strong, part 1 (the London Country Bus garages of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, UK)original ↗

7 Jan 2015

2014

Christmas Special: Get Your Skates On (Starlight Express)original ↗

17 Dec 2014

Voyages to the Interior (train and bus interiors, UK)original ↗

10 Dec 2014

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)original ↗

3 Dec 2014

Standing on the Platform and Looking Up at the Waves (Toledo metro station, Naples, Italy)original ↗

26 Nov 2014

Roll Up! (The transport songs of The Beatles)original ↗

19 Nov 2014

Dockside Digital (Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan)original ↗

12 Nov 2014

Riding the Wave (transit shelters, San Francisco, USA)original ↗

5 Nov 2014

Frank Lloyd Wright Hits the Gas (filling stations, Cloquet (MN) and Buffalo (NY), USA)original ↗

29 Oct 2014

Patterns of Force (Hoenheim-Nord terminus and car park, Strasbourg, France)original ↗

22 Oct 2014

The Magical Roundabout (Hovenring, Eindhoven, the Netherlands)original ↗

15 Oct 2014

Vincent van Gogh: Transport Artist original ↗

8 Oct 2014

Lost Beauty #8: The Palace of the Railroads (Pennsylvania Station, New York (NY), USA)original ↗

1 Oct 2014

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

24 Sept 2014

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

17 Sept 2014

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

10 Sept 2014

Wicked Wild West: the Grand Canyon’s Failed Railroads (Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)original ↗

3 Sept 2014

Grand Design (Grand Canyon railroad depot, Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)original ↗

27 Aug 2014

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

20 Aug 2014

The Sky Full of Stars (Grand Central Terminal, New York (NY), USA)original ↗

13 Aug 2014

Great White Stark (Surbiton station, London, UK)original ↗

6 Aug 2014

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

30 Jul 2014

Smooth Operator (Drassanes metro station, Barcelona, Spain)original ↗

23 Jul 2014

A Deadman’s Tale (Unstoppable, dir. Tony Scott, 2010)original ↗

16 Jul 2014

A Near-Perfect Union (Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles (CA), USA)original ↗

9 Jul 2014

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

7 Jul 2014

Vaulting Ambition (Stockwell Bus Garage, London, UK)original ↗

2 Jul 2014

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

25 Jun 2014

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

18 Jun 2014

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

11 Jun 2014

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

4 Jun 2014

The Beauty of Transport is on Holiday original ↗

28 May 2014

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: interior light fitting from Waterloo and City Line 1940 stock original ↗

21 May 2014

Along the Line, Blue and Gold (GNER’s corporate visual identity, Vignelli Associates, 1997)original ↗

14 May 2014

Shaft! 5 – Poison Running Through my Trains (Blackfriars Northern ticket hall, London, UK)original ↗

7 May 2014

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

30 Apr 2014

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

23 Apr 2014

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

16 Apr 2014

Loughton Proud (Loughton station, Loughton, London, UK)original ↗

9 Apr 2014

Orange in Roof and Claw (bus shelter by Peter Eisenman, Aachen, Germany)original ↗

2 Apr 2014

Aesthetic Overhead Line Structures images go Public original ↗

1 Apr 2014

Lost Beauty #6: Time Warp Terminal (Ocean Terminal, Southampton, UK)original ↗

26 Mar 2014

Cook’s Friezer (Thomas Cook Building, Leicester, UK)original ↗

19 Mar 2014

Neun Künstlerischen Bushaltestellen (BUSSTOPS, Hannover, Germany)original ↗

10 Mar 2014

The Kraken Wakes (Liège-Guillemins, Liège, Belgium)original ↗

5 Mar 2014

Shaft! 4 – Shaft at the Seaside (Carlisle Parade underground car park, Hastings, UK)original ↗

26 Feb 2014

Iron Ladies (cast iron tram/bus shelters of the British Isles)original ↗

19 Feb 2014

Through a Glass, Divinely (stained glass at railway stations)original ↗

12 Feb 2014

Concrete Cathedrals (Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground stations, London, UK)original ↗

5 Feb 2014

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)original ↗

29 Jan 2014

Mountain High Style (Hungerburgbahn, Innsbruck, Austria)original ↗

22 Jan 2014

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

15 Jan 2014

An Airline Terminal in the City Centre (Empire Air Terminal, London, UK)original ↗

8 Jan 2014

Victorian Art Deco (Victoria Coach Station, London, UK)original ↗

1 Jan 2014

2013

Desire Lines (EIT/DfT/HS2 RIBA Competition for aesthetic railway overhead line structures)original ↗

18 Dec 2013

An Art Gallery in Your Pocket (timetable covers, Tandem Design, UK)original ↗

18 Dec 2013

Pie in the Sky (the Emirates Air Line, London, UK)original ↗

11 Dec 2013

When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)original ↗

4 Dec 2013

Skyline, Passion, Union Terminal (Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)original ↗

27 Nov 2013

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: third rail insulator pot original ↗

20 Nov 2013

The Ribbon that Came out of the Pod (Bus Station, Vauxhall Cross, London, UK / lost beauty #5: Vauxhall Pod)original ↗

13 Nov 2013

Glaze Amaze (tiled railway maps of the UK)original ↗

6 Nov 2013

Fly Me to the Swoon (Madrid Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid, Spain)original ↗

30 Oct 2013

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)original ↗

23 Oct 2013

The Gate and The Good (Southampton Dock Gates, Southampton, UK)original ↗

16 Oct 2013

The Green Agenda (Leslie Green Underground stations, London, UK)original ↗

9 Oct 2013

Electric Dreams (Woking station and Electrical Control Room, Surrey, UK)original ↗

2 Oct 2013

The Saving of a Brutal Bus Behemoth (Preston Central Bus Station and Car Park, Preston, UK)original ↗

25 Sept 2013

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