{"id":5393,"date":"2013-10-12T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2013-10-12T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:44:48","slug":"nottingham-express-transit-citadis-number-2-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5393","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Express Transit Citadis number 2 arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second of the 22 Alstom Citadis trams being constructed for Nottingham Express Transit has now arrived at Wilkinson Street depot following its transport from Spain. Like the first tram it was transported by sea to Southampton Docks in Southampton and then resumed its journey by road to Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is presumed that this tram will be numbered 217 in the NET fleet but no external identification is carried on the trams when they are initially delivered to Nottingham. The tram joins <strong>216<\/strong> in Nottingham and will now undergo initial commissioning work before testing and eventual introduction into service, which is not expected until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5394\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=5394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5394\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5394\" title=\"10190338324_682912e194_b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10190338324_682912e194_b-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10190338324_682912e194_b-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10190338324_682912e194_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second of the Citadis trams for Nottingham Express Transit makes it way from the Docks at Southampton on its way north to its new home in the midlands. (Photo: Graham Tiller - http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77175657@N00)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second of the 22 Alstom Citadis trams being constructed for Nottingham Express Transit has now arrived at Wilkinson Street depot following its transport from Spain. Like the first tram it was transported by sea to Southampton Docks in Southampton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5393\">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\/5393"}],"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=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}