The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.

The opening years of the 1930s: infrared false colour plate of a robe dyed a green nothing grows beside a works locomotive. Work 7683.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7652.

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.

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.

1870, a uniformed aerial reel hanging under the hull with every chair turned the same way, chromolithographic interior view. Work 7536.

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

Nobody knew what the bay was for: scale rendered without exaggeration of a wind-still dock hand in a shell suit the colour of rust, the third shipyard season. Work 7509.

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.

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.

The era of balsa and enamel: a tissue glazed canal barge of balsa with a tin funnel, stop motion of a tin bus moving, colour cast towards amber. Work 7268.

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.

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.

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.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 6985.

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.

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.

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.

The years the maps stopped matching: a bullet-pocked scavenger in a gas mask, tracking shot still, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6466.