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TRAM ROUTE

Operator: Nottingham Express Transit

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tramway: 14.5 km.

HISTORY

Tramways

• Horse tramways: 17 Sept. 1878 - 30 Apr. 1902
• Steam tramways: 1884 - 1885
• First-generation electric urban tramway: 17 Nov. 1900 - 6 Sept. 1936.
• Interurban electric railway: 4 July 1913 - 5 Oct. 1933.
• Revived tramway (Nottingham Express Transit): 9 March 2004 - today.

GAUGE

• Urban and interurban tramway (First-generation): 1435 mm.
• Nottingham Express Transit: 1435 mm.

SOURCES

PRINT

• Bett, W.H. & Gillham, J.C. Great British tramway networks. London: Light Railway Transport League, 1962.
• "Bringing Nottingham together", Tramways & Urban Transit, Special Supplement, Nov. 2015 (78: 935), 30p.
• "Nottingham Express Transit - Light rail operator of the year" Tramways & Urban Transit, June 2008 (71: 846), p.225-232.
• "Nottingham: First tram is almost ready to roll", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2002 (65: 777), p.329-332.
• Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.156: Nottingham, United Kingdom", Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2020 (83: 994), p.392-396.
• Rossiter, W. "Wider impacts on NET Phase Two", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2016 (79: 945), 347-349.
• "Trams and Lenton", Lenton Times, May 1993 (Issue No.8).
(also available online

WIKIS

• Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited
• Nottingham Corporation Tramways
• Nottingham Express Transit
• Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company

WEB SITES

• NET Phase Two
• Nottingham Express Transit

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