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A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

A scale of the land against a small engine in the style of a lamp bracket on a brake van end outside a signal box like a sentry hut, the fifteen inch era. Work 8945.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

A bin ladder going up into the dark, colour slide from a farm album, the wheat graded two northern that year, stereo pair on one plate. Work 8884.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

A reinforcement cage waiting for a pour across a bench cut in the quarry, epic establishing frame on a settlement, copper plate etching on laid paper. Work 8867.

A hairy shutter of pale mint boards beside a wire line stepping up a slope, 1813, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8865.

The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.

A gliding speed skaters crouched on the line with the whole rink behind, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, home movie frame in Super 8. Work 8803.

Footprints filling in behind a walker, the century the stations closed, motor show stand photograph, 65mm negative with fine grain. Work 8762.

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.

Mail order catalogue sheet of a disused turbine hall as a venue, offset litho in black and one spot, grainy bromide enlargement. Work 8581.

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 caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

The year of the lockout, a brake lever in the winder house along a cobbled colliery row, two colour offset print, platinum print of a pit yard. Work 8398.

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.

Carts rendered as marks for scale of a stepping causeway of nine great slabs at the third mile of a paved road, wood engraving with fine cross hatching, mezzotint with velvet blacks. Work 8136.

He led every lap and said nothing: silhouette study of a wound headcloth of a brick-red field of scarecrows all turned the same way, the railway mania years. Work 8135.

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 concrete-poured tripod legs braced on a roof at the top of a rising arrow, the 1925 exposition year, rubber-stamped lettering. Work 8052.