Vanished Routes See all departures

00 · THE ARCHIVE

Every route has a last departure.

Vanished Routes is a documentary series about journeys nobody can take again: dead highways, discontinued trains, extinct flight routes.

Documentary series

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.

Departures

RouteLast ranEpisodeAirsStatus
The Hippie Trail1979EP 001OCT 03BOARDING
The Orient Express1977EP 002OCT 07SCHEDULED
The Atlantic Liners1969EP 003OCT 10SCHEDULED
Pan Am Clippers1946EP 004OCT 14SCHEDULED
The Zeppelin Lines1937EP 005OCT 17SCHEDULED
The Pony Express1861EP 006OCT 21SCHEDULED
Concorde2003EP 007OCT 24SCHEDULED
Route 661985EP 008OCT 28SCHEDULED

Two departures a week. Last ran is the year the real route stopped.

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

Paper collage of a painted bus crossing a vintage map

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