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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.
The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.
Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.
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 water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner. Work 8731.
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.
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 broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.
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.
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 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.
A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast. Work 6295.
A lincoln green steam-powered level crossing with no railway, Afewerk Tekle canvas, where lost gloves go, hair light. Work 5313.
A cable car climbing into cloud, Lomo LC-A snapshot, fire engine red, raindrops on the lens. Work 3545.
A cotton wool smouldering complaints book, model railway layout, two roads that do not meet, ghosting figures. Work 2822.