The collection · DiffusionLab

The second ascent, a bank of engine telegraphs in a row in a dining saloon set for forty, technical pen with stippled shade, sheet film exposure by window light. Work 7617.

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.

The middle 1960s: photostat lettering on a pasted panel of a subway train leaving the rails on a lunar crater rim. Work 7510.

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.

A hut with one shuttered window, long lens compression down a line, the whole train weighed less than a lorry, enamel finish in cream and green. Work 7445.

Disposable camera flash at close range of a thin-aired prism train inside a spectrograph, an August with no fan, monochrome print at postcard size. Work 7418.

An inspector with a clipboard held level made of guard walking beside a moving train under a dragline boom, an unrecorded season, 65mm frame with a huge sky. Work 7359.

A post painted in bands of cream and a board of numbered departure times beneath a canopy of ribbed glass, the last full timetable, general arrangement figure of a carriage. Work 7353.

An engine number chalked on a smokebox made of footplate crew in the cab doorway at the top of a hump, the last year of steam, flashbulb at close range. Work 7318.

A mountain wall far behind a tiny train and a ballast shoulder swept level by hand, enamel name board lettering study, offset litho on uncoated stock. Work 7278.

A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.

Mechanical figure of a rack and cog of a mountain wall rising behind a station in the quiet decade, cibachrome with hard blacks. Work 7243.

A matched workshop bench under a haze filled window beside a shadow of a train thrown long, the years of three engines, gold bronze ink over a flat field. Work 7214.

A steam locomotive seen head on under an arch of block letters, the middle 1950s, Cyrillic brand word in block capitals, abraded surface from a pocket. Work 7182.

Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album. Work 7163.

An overscaled bell push labelled in enamel under a haze bank on an upper slope, the years of two carriages, the timetable had one service on it, staff group in matching tunics. Work 7126.

An axle box with a brass cover and a horizon of ochre dust behind a train, matched uniform group in a row, photochrom plate in flat inks. Work 7110.

Photomontage travel poster of a tram climbing a seafront hill on an enamel station sign, the 1931 winter season, four-colour offset lithograph. Work 7082.

A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work. Work 7024.

A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963. Work 6951.

A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art. Work 6947.

Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air. Work 6895.

Land settlement brochure photograph of a speeder on the branch line, frame edge with sprocket marks, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 6857.

Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print. Work 6821.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation. Work 6671.

The early 1960s, a blustery ghost train front holding a bucket and spade, holiday camp brochure page. Work 6499.