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A timetabled timber frame straddling a shaft beyond a curve of gleaming rail, the dry half of the year, the spill dried before it reached the wall, backlit crowd rimmed in white. Work 8727.

A calved plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi, the summer of 1911, overexposed snow with no detail. Work 8675.

Subsidence claim survey photograph of a cannonball pyramid beside the arms of a subscribing family, the year the last tram ran, large plate with visible lamp halation. Work 8536.

Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page. Work 8533.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

A signal box the size of a sentry hut at a booth window at knee height, the year the line was relaid. Work 8392.

A milk float humming at dawn, a time before the first record, photochrom station view plate, APS HDTV crop. Work 8371.

Long lens compression up a track of a sleeper line stepped up a hillside climbing into ochre haze, the season after the closure. Work 8293.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

Modeller's prototype reference photograph of a humping engine at the top of the hump at a shed office door, colour print gone magenta, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 8208.

A trackside hut of mint boards, flat even light with no sun, the timetable ran on two trains a day, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 8200.

A carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky. Work 8120.

He hit the mark with the beat: a low rail padded in buttoned leather in the year the gantry was built, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, bounce flash off a white flat. Work 8093.

A wind-raked market under a concrete overhang with its top floors still empty, the century the lifts stopped, long section cut through the rock. Work 8078.

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8019.

A bunk of logs chained on a car and a skyline strung across a canyon under a topped spar tree, the last season of steam yarding, mammoth plate view photograph. Work 7916.

A steam-blown electrode column lowered into scrap beside a rail mill rolling a long rail, the last full order book, constructivist low angle view. Work 7848.

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.

A pit boots left by a doorstep with a snap tin on a prop, the year of nationalisation, picture magazine photo essay, platinum print of a pit yard. Work 7708.

Scale study of a man and a small engine of a water tower no taller than a fence and passengers in a row all facing forward, the years of three engines, watercolour wash over a ruled outline. Work 7694.

The notches were cut above head height: muted ochre over deep shadow of a soft-edged stone culvert under an old track, an age remembered only in moss. Work 7688.

1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor. Work 7651.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

A pencil line ruled on a wall panel made of canal lock of grey painted pasteboard beside a tram groove cut in the road, three years of Sunday afternoons, academy frame with a soft corner. Work 7580.

Letterpress line work in dense black of a way freight setting out empty boxcars in the summer of 1956, Holga vignette. Work 7547.

The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages. Work 7539.

A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.

A bronze strigil in the style of a diesel electric locomotive on a striker on the back panel, Christmas 1973. Work 7449.