{"id":60164,"date":"2025-09-19T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60164"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:46:17","slug":"picture-in-time-nottingham-express-transit-208-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60164","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Nottingham Express Transit 208"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We conclude this latest set of archive images from Nottingham Express Transit in this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was 7<sup>th<\/sup> June 2007 when this photo was taken of <strong>208<\/strong> and we are at the Station Street terminus with the tram waiting to depart with a service to Phoenix Park. Of course, today this is not a terminus with the phase two extensions having led to the line continuing over the adjacent Nottingham Railway Station. The grey wall beyond the tram and railings\/stop boards just before that have been swept away by those extensions. The Station Street stop has also been closed with a replacement Nottingham Station stop provided on the extension although you can still see the platforms in situ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>208<\/strong> is seen here in the original fleet livery which would remain on the Incentro trams until the first refurbishment from 2013. They have also enjoyed a second refurb from 2019. As well as those three fleet liveries <strong>208<\/strong> also carried an advert for e-on between July 2012 and December 2013 \u2013 one of six trams to have advertised e-on at some point plus one more which advertised Powergen a forerunner of e-on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60165\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/208-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60165\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/208-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/208-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/208-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/208-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 7th June 2007<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We conclude this latest set of archive images from Nottingham Express Transit in this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60164"}],"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=60164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60166,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60164\/revisions\/60166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}