{"id":29387,"date":"2019-08-17T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29387"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:26:14","slug":"picture-in-time-nottingham-express-transit-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29387","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Nottingham Express Transit 204"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again this week are in Nottingham for a look at a tram operating on the Nottingham Express Transit system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tram featured this week is <strong>204<\/strong>. This is a Bombardier Incentro and was assembled at Bombardier\u2019s Derby Works \u2013 the last class of tram to be built in the UK. Having been delivered the short distance to Nottingham\u2019s new Wilkinson Street Depot <strong>204<\/strong> went through the usual commissioning and testing process before entering service at the start of operations on the new tramway on 9th March 2004.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken on day two of operations \u2013 10th March 2004 \u2013 and shows <strong>204<\/strong> sitting at Old Market Square running through to Phoenix Park. With it being just the second day of the service the tram is still very much something new for locals as can be seen with the large number of people waiting to board.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29388\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29388\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29388\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29388\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29388\" title=\"204-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/204-gp-550x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/204-gp-550x380.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/204-gp-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/204-gp.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again this week are in Nottingham for a look at a tram operating on the Nottingham Express Transit system.<\/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\/29387"}],"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=29387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29393,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions\/29393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}