Brian Morrison was a magnificent railway photographer, but more importantly he was a truly lovely bloke. I knew Brian as a friend for 42 years, in which time I never saw him anything other than smiley, pleasant, helpful and full of good cheer.
Brian and I met in late 1981, shortly after I was appointed by Editor David Wilcock as Assistant Editor of Steam World, then a news magazine, launched by IPC earlier that year as a direct competitor to Emap's Steam Railway.
Whatever we were seeking to illustrate, he was top of the list of regular photographic contributors, alongside other very well known ‘names’ such as namesake Gavin Morrison (they were not related!), Derek Cross, Ivo Peters, John S. Whiteley, R.C. ‘Dick’ Riley and Geoff Rixon. Brian was still working back then and unless it was an urgent last minute picture requirement, when I'd call him at his Sidcup home in an evening, I'd phone him during the day at Dagenham's ‘Princes Bowl’ where he
