Bill Wright

[jonny777]

I have read a section on a Facebook group which says that Bill Wright ( aka Barking Bill ) has passed away. 

 

I do hope I am not being too previous, adding this here simply based on a FB discussion; but I have to say that his photos of the steam/diesel transition period posted on Flickr are some of the best quality images I have seen from that period. 

 

RIP Bill, 

 

You brought a long vanished and rapidly changing era back into reality for me (and I was too young and naive to realise how quickly much of it was going to be swept away). 

[Fat Controller]

I heard about this on a Welsh Facebook site. I never met him, alas, but do remember his help when my wife needed to use one of his photos to illustrate her MSc dissertation.

[TheSignalEngineer]

Sad news, Bill was still posting on Flickr a couple of weeks ago. 

He took some brilliant photos of the signal boxes about to be displaced by Saltley PSB in 1969.

[jonny777]

I hope that he would not have minded me posting one of my favourites here. 

 

There is so much of interest in most of Bill's images, not least the fact that here D6768 does not appear to have a small yellow warning panel (although it may be an optical illusion) as late as 1967. 

 

 

©Barking Bill. D6768 leaves Tees Yard with a train of empty coal hoppers. 17th April 1967. 

Edited March 22, 2020 by jonny777

[TheSignalEngineer]

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

D6768 does not appear to have a small yellow warning panel

The SYP on most EE Tye 3s only came half way across the tail lamp lens, so it was probably behind the brake tender.

[jonny777]

Yes, thanks. That was my conclusion when I looked closely at the photo, but it doesn't detract from the image. The one of the class 25 with the experimental orange panel taken at the same location is another gem. 

[TheEngineShed]

RIP Bill, you will be missed.