{"id":16547,"date":"2017-02-04T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2017-02-04T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:49:48","slug":"picture-in-time-nottingham-express-transit-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16547","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Nottingham Express Transit 206"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head off to Nottingham for today\u2019s instalment of Picture in Time with an image coming from 2007 of one of the original Incentro trams in the original livery. It is no. <strong>206<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Incentro trams were built by Bombardier with final assembly taking place at that firm\u2019s Derby works. They are, to date, the only modern trams for the UK actually built within the UK and the 15 strong fleet was also the largest home built fleet since Blackpool\u2019s Coronation cars in the 1950s. Delivery of the trams started in October 2002 (with <strong>202<\/strong>) and the remaining trams arrived during the remainder of 2002 and in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In this view we see <strong>206<\/strong> at the old Station Street terminus on 29th August 2007. The tram is carrying the original house colours of Dark Green, Black and Silver. One feature of the fleet almost since inception has been the extensive carrying of adverts including the centre car carrying full height vinyls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16548\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16548\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16548\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16548\" title=\"206-ms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/206-ms-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/206-ms-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/206-ms-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/206-ms.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Malcolm Storey<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head off to Nottingham for today\u2019s instalment of Picture in Time with an image coming from 2007 of one of the original Incentro trams in the original livery. It is no. 206.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547"}],"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=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16550,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions\/16550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}