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Farewell to Britain’s most prolific railway lensman

TRIBUTES far and wide have been paid to Brian Morrison – regarded by many to have been Britain’s most prolific railway photographer, having enjoyed a lensman’s career spanning more than six decades –who died at the age of 93 on April 30.

Brian took his first railway photographs in 1951 and went on to amass more than 200,000 images, supplying them to numerous publishers of books and magazines.

Growing up in South London, when Brian was just 10, his father taught him the saxophone; he

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