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The trolley came up three times before noon: presentation plate for a shareholder report of a chalk-pastel promenade deck with a sloped window wall, the year the gantry was built. Work 9445.
A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold. Work 8846.
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 carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky. Work 8120.
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 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.
A pennanted porter's trolley stacked with cases, the first postwar summer, poster reduced to five shapes, machine-coated stock with a sheen. Work 7805.
An unjustified kiosk column with three sheets at forty-five degrees to the edge, 1919, nobody kept the original layout, constructed photogram. Work 7720.
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.
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.
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.
The era of balsa and enamel: a tissue glazed canal barge of balsa with a tin funnel, stop motion of a tin bus moving, colour cast towards amber. Work 7268.
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.
Photomontage travel poster of a tram climbing a seafront hill on an enamel station sign, the 1931 winter season, four-colour offset lithograph. Work 7082.
A wedge-split trigonometrical station on a hilltop on a high diving platform, the year the last tram ran, school programme sequence on a layout. Work 6978.
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.
A tram passing a shuttered shop on an amusement pier, the last night of the fair, Gevacolor frame, north light in a bare room. Work 6388.
Somebody cut it down to fit: a copper wash boiler in the Carnation Revolution, hand painted bus livery, water spots on the emulsion. Work 6371.
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 silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key. Work 6335.
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.
1964: railway carriage print of a stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a stack of deck chairs. Work 5891.
Transit poster for a bus interior of a king size cork tipping paper on a king size, the Madison Avenue years, ink trapping on a heavy solid. Work 5875.
1970, a departing level crossing barrier down reflected in a dark window, long lens frame from across a street. Work 5824.
The early 1980s, a 99 flake in a cone at Brighton, dust in the gate, Agfachrome 40. Work 5768.
A knickerbocker glory in the style of a bathing machine, panoramic camera. Work 5368.
An unsupervised tram driver swinging the trolley pole with a missing step, Scandinavian national romantic, shot from a helicopter. Work 5259.