Onto the letter N today in our A-Z.
Its another letter which didn’t really take much thought to work out where to go as N is definitely for Nottingham Express Transit. Opening in March 2004 the network was originally a main line and a branch system with services running from Station Street just before Nottingham railway station to Hucknall with the branch heading off to Phoenix Park at Highbury Vale. It initially had a fleet of 15 Bombardier Incentro trams. In 2015 phase two extensions to Clifton South and Toton Lane opened and before that an additional 22 Alstom Citadis trams had been built for NET. Today the fleet comprises both classes of tram.
The Bombarider Incentro trams have gone through two major refurbishment programmes during their lives in Nottingham and this photo is taken after the first of these had taken place. On the right is 203 which is in the second fleet livery (each time get refreshed they get a new look!) with 211 on the left in an advertising livery for Alstom – at the time it was very much a Bombardier product advertising a rival firm but of course today and Alstom have taken over Bombardier. This is just before the entrance to the viaduct leading to what was the Station Street terminus but now leads to the other side of the station for the phase two extensions. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 17th March 2014)