Enjoy your extended Easter weekend by driving specials on your favourite routes for a chance to win! Over the next few days, submit screenshots of a Train Simulator ‘Easter Railtour’ to the Dovetail Live Forums, and whoever has the most likes will win an add-on of their choice! What do we mean by ‘Easter Railtour’? Anything set in the Spring that involves something unusual, be that an iconic preserved steam locomotive on the main line, or a diesel gala on a heritage railway – it’s a great way to get something different out on familiar tracks, and we can’t wait to see what you come up with! Check out the rules in our Article
For the 15th anniversary of the ICE, the Deutsche Bahn let one special ICE 1 on the most beautiful lines in Germany (fictional).
50049 Reskinned by me also with new headlight textures taken from the real thing. On the Settle to Carlisle in a fictional railtour. Will happen soon with 50007 also.
Class 52 locomotive D1015 "Western Champion" heads the final leg of 1Z16, the (fictional) annual Easter railtour service from Dover to Liverpool, seen near Irlam. She hauls a rake of preserved Mk2F coaches in a variety of liveries, with WCRC locomotive 47 826 supplying ETH to the coaches.
UP #844 racing through New Jersey during a late season flurry to pick up tourists for an Easter picnic.
Tornado on the Heart of Midlothian by stu12996 posted Mar 29, 2018 at 6:55 PM An attempt at recreating one of my photos of Tornado at Edinburgh Waverley sid last year on the Heart of Midlothian
Near the village of Achmore and with the hills of Lochan Dubha towering over, CrossCountry HST set lead by 43285 and trailed by 43321 is on the return leg of a railtour from Aberdeen to Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh.
OK, here's my entry: I once saw a picture in a magazine of the two A4 Pacific's "Union of South Africa" & "Sir Nigel Gresley" travelling along the main line with their Support Coaches in tow. Could you imagine what the two would be like on a railtour together? Well, here they are in TS on a tour to London passing Didcot Railway Centre.
BR, EX-GWR, Castle class, 5017 "ST Donats Castle" Running on the South Wales Coastal line, from Bristol to Swansea.
GWR 6000 works the "Easter Rose Express". If my watermark counts as editing it, I can happily supply the same shot without the watermark and headboard portions.
Hey there. This is my entry to the Easter Screenshot Competition. Here we can see 6023 King Edward II on the Return Torbay Express as it rounds Red Rock at Dawlish Warren.
Peppercorn Class A1 Tornado sits patiently in Bristol Temple Meads, waiting to depart with the Torbay Express.
A double-headed castle class easter train climbs the steep grade out of the Thameslink tunnels filled with children to go to the Luton Easter Parade. (Fictional)
A class 205 thumper heads up north for a railtour along the Wherry lines in late March of 2003. (fictional)
If the NRM had decided to put the 'Duchess of Hamilton' back into service while they were restreamlining her. This easter special reenactment of the 'Coronation Scot' crawling into Carlisle would have been a wonderful possibility.
Thundering past, on a home bound rail tour from Dover, Are Ian Riley Black 5s,44871 and 45407 the Lancaster Fusilier thundering past just outside of Faversham
Hi, I've already uploaded a few screenshots previously, and when I try to upload a new one, it says I have reached my limit; I can't upload more media! Should I just delete those so that I have more space? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A BR Two Tone Green Class 47 is seen just north of Lichfield Trent Valley Station with a empty stock move for Barrow Hill Roundhouse. In late March 2018 (fictional)
BR Class 143 Royal by 52_Western posted Feb 25, 2018 at 1:07 PM The Class 67 Diamond Jubilee has broken down, so this has been sent as a replacement, coming out of Brighton just now. The Queen is currently waiting for it at Gatwick Airport, but doesn't yet know about the replacement. I'm sure Her Majesty won't mind...? BR Class 166 Network Southeast by 52_Western posted Feb 28, 2018 at 5:14 PM BR Class 166 Network Southeast by 52_Western posted Feb 28, 2018 at 5:14 PM Two shots of the NSE Class 166 Turbo Networker on my fictional East Undon Network route. Class 485 Sparkin' Along The 3rd Rail by 52_Western posted Mar 30, 2018 at 10:55 AM The Class 485 on the London to Brighton route. Nice sparks, don't you think? Class 450 At Dawlish by 52_Western posted Mar 30, 2018 at 10:55 AM A custom-made 4-car consist of the Class 450 from the London to Brighton route, I took for a drive on the Riviera Line Electrified. I'm sure everyone in Dawlish who sees this swooshing past will be baffled beyond belief! Mainly because firstly, there's no 3rd rail to be seen anywhere (and also no overhead wires), and secondly because Class 450s never ran on the Riviera Line. Class 42 At Dawlish Warren by 52_Western posted Mar 30, 2018 at 10:55 AM Class 42 Entering Dawlish by 52_Western posted Mar 30, 2018 at 10:55 AM What if the Highflyer had also been preserved? Well now you can find out, by looking at these shots of the Warship! These were both taken in Dawlish Warren. Hope you enjoyed the screenshots!
SWT did operate along the Riviera Line until the December 2009 TT change, to Paignton, Plymouth and Penzance. And a screenshot, 73201 'Broadlands' making it's way out of London Victoria on the way to Swanage with the LT Red 4TC.
D1015 and 40145 power along the Dawlish Sea Wall with a rake of Rivera Trains Mk1s & Mk2s on the Penzance bound Southbound leg of the 2010 'The East Lancshire Champion' Railtour. In-Game The real scene
Here is my image, LNER A1 60163 'Tornado' racing along the ECML just south of Darlington on the return journey of the Elizabethan railtour back in July 2012.
In honour of the centenary of the West Highland Railway in 1994, K1 2005 and Black 5 44767 attack the climb out of Crianlarich bound for Fort William
Spring, while a lot warmer than the previous season, still means much less daylight to work with, much to the chagrin of the railfans watching at San Francisco as Union Pacific E8 #942 pulls an Officer's Special train. After a long day of delays and equipment problems, the train finally got underway at 6:00PM, meaning just a small amount of sun left for anyone watching!
The Industrial Railway Society brakevan Railtour of the Cottonopolis Canal Navigation & Railway internal rail system back in the 60's just before the Railway fell silent, overcome as it was by road transport in 1968. The workshop route is called "It's grim up North" http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796390288
Stunning shot! DTG really need to update their Riviera line, though. Just look at these houses IRL, and that meadow with a texture scaled really small. And the stairs are missing in TS just at the end of that paved path there. I know there are stairs there, as I've walked up those very stairs. And they need to replace the greenhouses in Paignton with the Parkfield building, and they also need to fix the problem with the barriers in Paignton, where two of them are always down, and there are metal girders (if they're called that?) hanging from the barriers IRL.
An open day at the York National Railway Museum is temporarily halted to experience two railtours leaving York station simultaneously, a pair of DRS 37s heading the Easter Chieftain and a Rebuilt Bulleid Pacific heading the Scarborough Spa Express.
Easter Screenshot entry by DeadlyDorito posted Mar 30, 2018 at 5:34 PM Gala day on the abbey railway, where a group of photographers gather to watch GWR 1450 & 1466 haul a passenger service. At the same time, 21C123 Blackmore Vale awaits clearance towards Malmesbury on a photo charter. Taken on my Malmesbury heritage route (The abbey railway)
Unless Network Rail suddenly operate in the US and have bought the SP-Daylight painted SD70ACe but didn't yet rebrand it, no.
34081 '92 Squadron' storms out of Clayton Tunnel, on a railtour between Portsmouth and London via Brighton.
Ah. Okay, good to know, then disregard my previous screenshot-post, this is my screenshot for the competition: Class 42 Warship At Dawlish by 52_Western posted Mar 31, 2018 at 10:20 AM This is set tomorrow (Easter), and this is the fictional story behind the screenshot: I always wake up at 5:00AM, and every 3rd day, I treat myself to some ice cream. So, this was one of those days. I got up, walked across the road, under the overpass, and went up to the ice cream stall. I had purchased the ice cream, and I was just about to lick it, when I heard an engine sound from behind me. A Maybach engine sound. I turned around, and saw D817 Foxhound, heading straight for me. I always have my camera round my neck, so when I see something spectacular like this diesel, I can always photograph it. So I did. I quickly switched it on, focused the camera on Foxhound, and pressed down on that button. This is the result. <crowd applaudes> Thank you very much. Hope you like it, and the little story behind it!
I was visiting a friend's family who live up north near Glenfinnan and while I was up there, I went with his family for a walk in the hills and caught glimpse of some steam in the air and when I got to the top of the hill and got my camera out I saw Class 5MT 'Black 5' 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' crossing over Glenfinnan Viaduct with an afternoon Easter Special Jacobite service, that was on its way to Mallaig from Fort William.
Below: Durning the early 50's the Great Western Railway, now operating under British Rail, began a trial extension of one of its premier services 'The Bristolian'. The express which used to terminate at Bristol Temple Meeds now runs back north through Filton Junction and over the Severn; then continuing past Newport and Cardiff before switching to the branch line at Bromsgate Junction. The express now terminated at the small town of Temsby Port every other Sunday morning, allowing for passengers to enjoy the seaside before the return journey that afternoon. Here we see 5029 Nunny Castle waiting to leave platorm 3 for the return journey to London.
Class 42 No 866 'Zebra' on a Management Special Railtour on a warm spring afternoon, departing from Exeter St Davids