The collection · DiffusionLab

A ticket office with the window shuttered, available light, worn counter. Work 7410.

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.

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 shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

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.

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 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.

The second slab was never opened: a theodolite on a tripod facing a monolith in the year the railway was added, streets left white between ruled blocks, polarised sky over pale concrete. Work 6780.

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.

An inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines. Work 6635.

Scale model publicity photograph of a gold vein running through quartz, Kentmere 100, split grade print. Work 6526.

Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped. Work 6456.

A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate. Work 6354.

A convoy strung out across a pan in the shade of a tanker trailer in the age of the welded machine, telephoto compression of a convoy. Work 6348.

A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast. Work 6295.

A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph. Work 6279.

A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light. Work 6107.

A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph. Work 6075.

A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame. Work 6071.

A train compartment with one passenger in a sanatorium garden, day for night frame, slow zoom in. Work 5940.