{"id":65047,"date":"2026-10-19T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65047"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:36:15","slug":"trams-nottingham-express-transit-221-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65047","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Nottingham Express Transit 221 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrams &amp;\u201d continues with a photo showing us a tram in Nottingham along with a modern bus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This image was taken just as the tramway leaves behind the street running section in the city centre and comes to the viaduct which leads to what is now the through stop at Nottingham Station but was initially where the Station Street terminus was to be found. We are looking towards the station here as we see <strong>Nottingham Express Transit 221<\/strong> as it comes off the viaduct and is about to hit the shared road section on the approach to Lace Market.<\/p>\n<p>As it does we see a bus operated by Nottingham City Transport which is held at the lights to allow the tram the go-ahead. The bus is working a service on Navy Line 49 which works between Nottingham City Centre and the Boots site. Originally registered in 2019 (making it newer than the tram) it is yet another Alexander Dennis Enviro400.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65048\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221bus-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65048\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221bus-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221bus-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221bus-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/221bus-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 14th September 2026<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrams &amp;\u201d continues with a photo showing us a tram in Nottingham along with a modern bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047"}],"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=65047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65049,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047\/revisions\/65049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}