{"id":14517,"date":"2016-04-29T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2016-04-29T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:09:59","slug":"two-more-namings-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"Two more namings in Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A further two Nottingham Express Transit Citadis trams have received names this week with the two local heroes to be honoured this time being Rebecca Adlington OBE and Doug Scott CBE. The two trams to receive the names are <strong>231<\/strong> and <strong>225<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Swimmer Rebecca Adlington OBE is a double Olympic Gold Medalist having won at the 2008 Bejing Olympics. She has also won medals at the World, Commonwealth and European championships. Rebecca hails from Mansfield and spent time training in Nottingham before retiring in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Scott CBE was born in Nottingham and has been described as \u201cone of Britain\u2019s all-time great high altitude mountaineers\u201d having climbed the highest peak on each of the seven continents. He also became, in 1975, the first Briton \u2013 along with Dougal Halston \u2013 to climb the South West Face of Everest.<\/p>\n<p>The namings took place at Wilkinson Street Depot on Wednesday 27th April but unfortunately neither recipient was able to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Both Rebecca and Doug were nominated by members of the public ahead of the opening of the Phase Two extensions with one further name set to be revealed shortly which will adorn <strong>216<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A further two Nottingham Express Transit Citadis trams have received names this week with the two local heroes to be honoured this time being Rebecca Adlington OBE and Doug Scott CBE. The two trams to receive the names are 231 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14517\">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\/14517"}],"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=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14518,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions\/14518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}