Date: 02/08/2023

The death has occurred of Stuart Sellar, whose railway career started in 1955 as a booking clerk in his local Edinburgh station at Morningside Road, with a two-year interruption for National Service at Longmoor Camp. Resuming his railway career in 1958, he carried his camera wherever possible, summers taking him to work as a relief clerk at a variety of stations including Galashiels, Melrose and Hawick which created opportunities to photograph the passing steam scene. He also served at Burntisland before a permanent switch to the Operating Department and from 1962 trained as a Traffic Apprentice. After appointments in the Area Manager and HQ organisations which included the establishment of the steam operation between Fort William and Mallaig, early retirement in 1992 led to consultancy and then a decade travelling the world with Great Rail Journeys. Stuart will be best remembered for his sixty-year association with SRPS, especially the development of mainline railtours, and his memoir 'Railway Reflections : Reminiscences of Steam in Scotland' was published by the Society in 2021.

His funeral will be held on Tuesday 22 August at 1045 in Falkirk Crematorium.

-John Yellowlees

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