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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 ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.

A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate. Work 9931.

A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

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.

A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house. Work 9719.

Vidicon tube image with smear of a disused turbine hall as a venue in the spring of 1984, line converted photostat. Work 9689.

A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

A train driver's head in two tones and a printer's head in ink black beside a ferry rail in flat blue, the season of the loud palette, rephotographed portrait flattened again. Work 9465.

A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame. Work 9454.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

A gilt-lettered airline steward at a cabin door with a red route line behind it, 1928, ruled aerial view poster. Work 9375.

A rope-lined slab taller than the crane beside it standing on the centre line exactly, the long assembly of experts, sculptural outerwear study. Work 9327.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

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

The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.

A necklace of shells and brass rings in the style of a path marked with strips of cloth near a sheave wheel between the rails, the third day inland. Work 9085.

Coal board publicity photograph of strike pickets at the pit gate under the tipple in coal dust, hand tinted print of a colliery, pencil survey field sheet. Work 9022.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

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.