Nottingham Express train Transit

Located on the Trent river, Nottingham, regional capital of the the Midlands of the East in England, is the center of an agglomeration of: 500000 inhabitants.

The city and the County of the Nottinghamshire developed a policy of urban displacements which applies to all the area, i.e. the surrounding city, its agglomeration and rural areas.

Within this framework, the local public authorities created Nottingham Express Transit ( NET ), which is a network of Tramway serving the agglomeration of Nottingham Its first line was opened with the public the March 9th 2004, at a cost of construction of 200 million books. It will have taken 16 years of the design for the startup.

The network

History: the Old network

August 1st Nottingham had a network of tram used by the Nottingham and District Trams Company Limited , in traction hyppomobile from September 18th, 1878 to April 30th, 1902, and in traction vapor of 1883 to 1889 the Nottingham Corporation Trams exploited its network in electric traction by from July 23rd, 1901 to September 6th, 1936.

In addition, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company exploited a line with electric traction between Nottingham and Ripley from July 4th, 1913 to October 5th, 1932.

The current network

The layout of the current line starts at the Station of Notthingham (Nottingham station) in the south of the downtown area, and extends towards north, serving Lace Market, Nottingham the Trent University, Forest Recreation Ground, for finally leading to Hucknall.

The line made 14 km length, including 4 km in the streets, generally in exclusive right of way. A little in north the downtown area is a section (on approximately 1 km) where the two directions pass by different streets. Of Wilkinson Street and on approximately 8 km towards north, the line is established along an existing railway, the Robin Hood Line, connecting Nottingham to Worksop.

In Highbury Vale, approximately to semi-course, a branch with single track turns towards the west with a terminus 1 km further in Phoenix Park, in order to serve a park-relai on the highway M1, whereas the principal branch continues towards north towards Hucknall. Several stations are equipped with Park-relay.

The tram is in correspondence with the trains of the frankness Central Trains and Midland Mainline.

Rolling stock

The fleet includes/understands 15 articulated oars with low total floor Incentro similar to those of Nantes, built by Bombardier (in the past ADtranz). Rolling on a way with spacing standard, long and equipped with 5 articulations, they 33 meters are fed in 750 volts D.C. current and have a maximum speed of 80 km/h. They are numbered from 201 to 216, because the motor coaches of the old network were registered until N°200.

The tickets are sold aboard tram by the driver.

With the January 31st 2005, the frequency is five minutes to the rush hours, in alternation on the two branches towards Hucknall and Phoenix Park. Studies are in hand to extend this service of point the every day of 7:30 to 18:30.

The concession of line 1

The line is conceded for one 30,5 years duration within the framework of a Private Finance Initiative at the company Arrow Light Ltd Rail., of which are shareholders Bombardier, Carrillion, Transdev, Nottingham City Transport, Innisfree and Galaxy Fund Management. The company is charged, over this duration, of the design, construction, the exploitation and the maintenance of line 1 tram of Nottingham.

Within this framework, the exploitation and the maintenance of the tram are entrusted to Nottingham tram consortium (NTC), for one 27 years duration.

The operators are remunerated thanks to the billetery, as well as an public allocation poured by the town of Nottingham and of the county of Nottinghamshire.

Projects

Extensions are being studied; they would consist of two new lines since the downtown area:

in south-west towards Chilwell, by University off Nottingham and Beeston and then towards Toton/Stapleford, where a Park-relay near has 52 should draw aside the circulation of the downtown area of Nottingham;
in the south towards Clifton by Wilford.

Work of these two lines, each one being connected to the one of the branches of the first line, should begin in 2006, two phases.

This whole of tram lines aims at reducing the number of ways in the car in Nottingham of four million per annum.

Layout and stations

joint Base

Highbury Vale
David Lane
Basford tram
Wilkinson Street (Park-relay)

joint Base

The Forest (serves Forest Recreation Ground, park-relay)
High School
Nottingham the Trent University (Nottingham the Trent University serves)
Royal Center
Old Market Square
Lace Market
Station Street (Nottingham railway station serves)

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