Vanished Routes
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00 · THE ARCHIVE

Documentaries about travel routes that no longer exist.

Every route has a last departure.

Vanished Routes retraces journeys nobody can take again: dead highways, discontinued trains, extinct flight routes, one 10-minute episode at a time.

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One journey per episode.

Ten minutes, one route: how it opened, how people rode it, and the day it stopped.

10 minutes, no filler

From first departure to last.

Every episode is researched from published sources, and the numbers are told as story.

Researched, sourced

01 · NOW BOARDING

And what is there today.

The line frays where the paper tears. Keep scrolling: the first departure is boarding below.

Episode 001 poster: 1970 hippie bus against a 1979 closed border Premieres Oct 3

Now boarding: The Hippie Trail

EP 001 · 10 MIN · LONDON TO KATHMANDU · 1957 TO 1979

Two travelers land in Sydney with 27 cents. The road that carried them, 12,000 miles of it, no longer exists.

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Departures

RouteLast ranEpisodeAirsStatus
The Hippie Trail1979EP 001OCT 03BOARDING
The Berlin Airlift1949EP 002OCT 07GET NOTIFIED
The Red Cars of Los Angeles1961EP 003OCT 10GET NOTIFIED
The Hejaz Railway1918EP 004OCT 14GET NOTIFIED
The Blue Riband1958EP 005OCT 17GET NOTIFIED
The Beeching Axe1965EP 006OCT 21GET NOTIFIED
The Butterfield Overland Mail1861EP 007OCT 24GET NOTIFIED
The Lincoln Highway1926EP 008OCT 28GET NOTIFIED

Two departures a week. Last ran is the year the real route stopped. See every episode →

The archive

Vanished Routes retraces the history of travel itself. Each 10-minute episode follows one dead route from its first departure to its last, then visits what remains today.

The series is researched from published sources and drawn in a paper-collage style: cut-out maps, torn kraft edges, and a single red line for every route.

ONE ROUTE PER EPISODE · EDUCATION · ENGLISH, WITH DUBS TO COME

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Paper collage of a painted bus crossing a vintage map

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