We’re back in Nottingham for this next entry into the 2024 edition of “15 Years Apart”.
We start off with this image taken on 3rd June 2009 at Station Street – then terminus of the lines from Hucknall and Phoenix Park – as 211 stands at the stop before it heads back to Phoenix Park. The tram was still in the original fleet livery of dark green, silver and black and has various external advertising but still with plenty of corporate identity still to be seen.
In recent years, Nottingham Express Transit has seen a major increase in full vinyl wraps and 211 has been one of those trams to receive an advert. This is for Marks Electrical (who also advertise on Manchester Metrolink) and was applied in January 2024. Its not been the only wrap the tram has carried since we saw it in fleet livery in 2009 though with five other adverts carried in that period, indeed from 2010 until 2019 it was barely out of them. The tram speeds towards Ruddington Lane on 16th September 2024. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)