Hi everybody. This is the TS2018 screenshot contest for the third week of July 2018. Please do not upvote until Thursday. The Rules: Changes over last week: Please post screenshots in 16:9 resolution. This is so we can fill the livestream screen with it without resorting to letterboxing. -The thread is open for entries until Thursday morning for entrants to post their screenshots. That is when the upvoting starts. This is to make sure late entrants have the same amount of time to collect votes as all the other entries. - Limit is 3 screenshots per person. - 1 screenshot per post. This will allow people to upvote the screenshots they like. - No photoshopping. The screenshot should be as it looked ingame. - Please try and make your screenshots in a 16:9 resolution. - Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam store is not shown in the screenshot. - Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The screenshot with the most upvotes is declared the winner. Winner's Prize: Bragging rights. We will contact the author to request permission to show the winning screenshot in our livestreams and social media channels. This weeks' theme: Bridge Good luck!
The double river crossing near Witton Park (in Weardale and Teesdale Network) that I've always found quite novel.
A Deltic heads south as an Inter-City 125 crosses Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge in the background. Between them the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, the latest to span the Tyne, stands ready to carry the soon to open Metro. (From the ECML North route.)
Although his career is defined by the Tay Bridge disaster (not entirely fairly) Thomas Bouch's career began with the Stockton and Darlington Railway for which he built some magnificent and innovative structures including Lands Viaduct completed in 1863. It was 161ft high and carried the Bishop Auckland to Barnard Castle line (represented in the Weardale and Teesdale Network in the '60s DLC) across the S&D's Haggerleases branch and the River Gaunless. Only the abbutments and scattered ruins of the piers survive today. Amusing side note- the name Gaunless derives from the Viking word from which we also get gormless meaning stupid or useless. The river is big enough to be in the way but too small for boats and empty of fish so you can't even get anything to eat from it. I originally posted a different screengrab but noticed it had the frame rate on for some reason and thought I could do better. Although replacing the file replaced the image in the original post it seemed best to remove that and put up a new one.
While I am very grateful that my screenshot won the competition, I just realised that the livery on the 205 is not the original Network Souteast livery that came with it, but rather a slight variant of it. Therefore the screenshot does not follow the guidelines since it contains content which cannot be found on steam. I wasn’t aware that the the skin wasn’t the orignal included NSE livery when I posted the screenshot. Feel free to disqualify my screenshot and pick the runner up.
I think its a bit unfair to pick up the award for best falling on ones sword as well as best screenshot volvolover1972