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Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.

A Streamline Moderne diner and a RAM stick, test shot for a catalogue, VHS head switching noise. Work 9912.

The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.

Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.

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.

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.

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.

A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study. Work 8379.

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

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 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 void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.