{"id":11287,"date":"2015-05-23T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11287"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T09:18:18","slug":"in-pictures-more-citadis-trams-enter-service-on-nottingham-express-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11287","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: More Citadis trams enter service on Nottingham Express Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently the only Citadis trams to have carried passengers on the original Phase One sections of Nottingham Express were <strong>216<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>221<\/strong> but over the past few days further examples have entered service ahead of the opening of the extensions later this summer. On Wednesday 20th May <strong>222<\/strong>, <strong>224<\/strong>, <strong>225<\/strong> and <strong>226<\/strong> were all in service as these photos provided by Bob Gell show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In other news on the Citadis fleet not previously reported is the naming of 219 Alan Sillitoe a few months ago whilst <strong>216<\/strong> is set to be renamed Kim Helm following the recent Nurse of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11288\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11288\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11288\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11288\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11288\" title=\"001 224 OMSq 20-5-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/001-224-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/001-224-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/001-224-OMSq-20-5-15.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">224 leaves Old Market Square with a service for Hucknall.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11289\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11289\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11289\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11289\" title=\"002 225 OMSq 20-5-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/002-225-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/002-225-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/002-225-OMSq-20-5-15.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">225 at Old Market Square.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11290\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11290\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11290\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11290\" title=\"003 226 OMSq 20-5-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/003-226-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/003-226-OMSq-20-5-15-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/003-226-OMSq-20-5-15.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view at Old Market Square, this time we see 226. (All Photographs by Bob Gell, 20th May 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently the only Citadis trams to have carried passengers on the original Phase One sections of Nottingham Express were 216&#8211;221 but over the past few days further examples have entered service ahead of the opening of the extensions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}