{"id":31387,"date":"2019-12-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31387"},"modified":"2019-12-06T21:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T21:40:27","slug":"15-years-apart-nottingham-express-transit-203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31387","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Nottingham Express Transit 203"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to another modern tram system for today\u2019s \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d as we are off to the East Midlands and Nottingham Express Transit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->2004 was actually the very first year that Nottingham Express Transit operated public services, opening on 9th March of that year. Our 2004 photo comes from the second day of service when <strong>203<\/strong> was pausing at Royal Centre with a service running to the then terminus at Station Street. Running in the original fleet livery this tram has since received two further fleet liveries as it has gone through two mid-life refurbishments over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31388\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31388\" title=\"1.203-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.203-gp-550x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.203-gp-550x387.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.203-gp-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.203-gp.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Moving onto to 2019 and <strong>203<\/strong> is in a new fleet livery having been one of the first Bombardier Incentro trams to go through the Wilkinson Street Workshops as part of the second mid-life refresh project. We see the tram approaching Ruddington Lane on 23rd September 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31389\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31389\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31389\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31389\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31389\" title=\"2.203-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.203-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.203-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.203-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.203-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to another modern tram system for today\u2019s \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d as we are off to the East Midlands and Nottingham Express Transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387"}],"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=31387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31391,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31387\/revisions\/31391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}