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The Beauty of Transport @thebeautyoftransport.com · Sep 8

The inside track on the creation of the ever-so-pretty (and substantially more useful) new Northern network map. Fascinating stuff. Designers are so clever.

Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Sep 8

👋 Introducing Northern’s new network map...

🗺️ Find out how we redesigned Northern's network map with clarity, consistency and connections in mind 👇

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Find out how we redesigned Northern's network map with clarity, consistency and connections in mind

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Sep 8

👋 Introducing Northern’s new network map...

🗺️ Find out how we redesigned Northern's network map with clarity, consistency and connections in mind 👇

transportdesigned.com/introducing-...

Introducing Northern's new network map - Transport Designed

Find out how we redesigned Northern's network map with clarity, consistency and connections in mind

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Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social · Jul 30

⛺️ An absolutely stunning little piece of PR courtesy of NS in the Netherlands:

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NS opens train station campsite for students who couldn't find living space

NS will set up a campsite at Utrecht Central Station for first-year students who weren’t able to find accommodation in the city in time for the university’s orientation period next month. Twenty first...

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Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social · Feb 6

Getting ready to ‘Azuma’ down to London with @lner.co.uk on a very special mission. But more to come on that later…

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Matt Harrison in an orange hoodie posing for a gratuitous selfie in front of a LNER train at Leeds station

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Jan 26

This station...simply 🤌

Simon Kendler @simonzev.bsky.social · Jan 25

And now some classic French high speed travel with #SNCF #OuiGo from Lyon St Exupéry to Gare de Lyon - 260 miles in less than 2 hours non-stop. The power of #HighSpeedRail & a reminder of why we need #HS2 #TrainLife #YRT #France

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Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · Jan 26

#OnThisDay in 1987, the Bee Line Buzz Company started operations in deregulation era Manchester. Its little minibuses made a big impact, but competition was strong and it had disappeared from the region's streets within ten years.

A small minibus stands outside Manchester Victoria railway station. The bus is bright yellow, with a red roof, and on its bonnet there's a prominent cartoon of a bee. The station entrance is on the left just behind some taxis, and behind the minibus in the distance we see double decker buses in orange or green.

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Arjan den Boer @arjandenboer.bsky.social · Jan 26

Amsterdam Sloterdijk, wat een joekel toch

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riksredguard.bsky.social @riksredguard.bsky.social · Jan 25

Snowhill Lane Bridge, M6, by Jen Orpin, Manchester-based artist who paints a lot of motorways.

(With thanks to @groomb.bsky.social )

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Jan 24

Agreed! 😍

Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · Jan 24

Amtrak desperately needs to bring these gorgeous timetables back. (Link below)

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 18

Excellent!

Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 10

🎙️ Podcast…now loading!

Stay tuned for updates 👇

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Home studio setup for Transport Designed Talks podcast

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 10

A pleasure to add you to the list! ✅

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 10

Oh, thought you were on it already! Correcting that now... 😀

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Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social · Dec 7

So pleased that I managed to get hold of a copy of the 1984 BR Passenger Timetable today, courtesy of @motgm.uk.

Beautiful use of linear two-point perspective and referenced in the excellent book by @doublearrow64.bsky.social, my copy even came with bookmark and pullout map!

BR Passenger Timetable from 1984, showing red double arrow in two point perspective on a yellow background

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 5

Those skylights are lovely! 😍

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · Dec 5

#ThrowbackThursday this week takes us to #Rochdale, where a SELNEC bus is just arriving from the south. The windows in the roof are nice for soaking up the sun - not that one sees much of that in that part of the world! Looks like the lower panels would have benefited from a wash, too...

An orange and white 'Selnec' single decker bus drives through Rochdale town centre some time in the 1970s. There are smart flower beds to the left of the bus, and stone buildings in the background.

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Dec 4

Nice! Wonder why some of them have yellow painted fronts though, and others don't?

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Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social · Nov 28

A simply stunning piece of writing from @danielhwright.bsky.social over on @thebeautyoftransport.com - the 'Major Stations' icons which simply refuse to die.

Pandora's Box has been opened - I suspect they'll be around in all kinds of official/unofficial capacities for a looooong time to come.

The Beauty of Transport @thebeautyoftransport.com · Nov 27

#TheBeautyOfTransport revisits one of its most popular articles, with the continuing story of Railtrack/Network Rail's major station logos.

Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))

One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack's major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These ones... A selection of the major station identifier logos, by Citigate Lloyd Northover, via John David Lloyd’s website (

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Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · Nov 27

To celebrate the kindness of 1000 BlueSkyers following these witherings, I’m sharing with you some pics of a surprise visit to London’s #DesignMuseum (after last weeks book launch) which encompass many subjects I post about like transit, telecommunications, typography and good old radio. Thanks all!

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · Nov 27

If you get on the Victoria Line you might find yourself in a special train carriage. TFL has collaborated with PlayStation installing a brand new PS5 moquette.

The design features a fun maze, encouraging passengers to play as they travel. The carriage will be available until Jan 7th

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Nov 20

In honour of Go-Ahead winning the contract to operate the Elizabeth Line from May 2025…

…here, have some lovely purple seat moquette.

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ido @ido.bsky.social · Nov 15

Photos from the beautiful 70s modernist Vienna metro, which looks like it could have come out of a Dieter Rams catalogue

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Nov 15

👋 Hello to our new followers here on Bluesky! 🦋

Here, have some lovely artwork from GWR, who have been running their ‘Be sponTRAINeous’ campaign throughout 2024.

It’s designed to encourage spontaneous day trips with GWR’s range of advance single tickets.

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GWR ‘Be Spon-Train-Eous’ campaign showing a green train going over a viaduct in the style of a painting

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Nov 14

Great to have you on board - duly added to our Starter Pack!

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Nov 14

🙌 It's here! 🏁

Check out our starter pack featuring people and organisations from the worlds of transport, design, marketing, branding, architecture, history and more.

We're still connecting with peeps from the old place, so if you'd like to be added to our Starter Pack, drop a comment below 👇

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Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com · Nov 14

🚇 Bring back strap hanger advertising! 🚇

Cracking designs which were used on the Piccadilly line '1972 stock' trains in the 1990s - the Pepsi can is particularly delightful.

Photo courtesy of the London Transport Museum: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/...

Strap hanger advertising from the Piccadilly Line - Pepsi can, Orangina, Vaseline and Creme egg

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