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Nottingham Express Transit : Tram Stops : Wilkinson Street depot

The depot is next to the Park & Ride site at Wilkinson Street, on part of a former gasworks site. There are double-track connections to both the city- and country-bound tracks.

All vehicle maintenance is carried out here, and trams are stabled here overnight. The depot also contains NET's offices, staff facilities and control room. The tramshed has two maintenance roads (one powered, one not) and a sanding road through a separate sanding shed. There is a wheel lathe on the unpowered road, and there is is also a tramwash and four stabling roads.

Depot track diagram

Please note: NET's depot is private property. All pictures inside the depot were taken during a public tour, and are reproduced here with the permission of NET.

Pictures

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Depot sign

24/03/2004 • 000117

A view of the rear of the depot taken from the Park & Ride car park, with two trams in the stabling roads

24/03/2004 • 000118

The front of the depot, taken from the entrance. At this point the road to the car park crosses the tracks

24/03/2004 • 000119

Trams in the stabling roads

24/03/2004 • 000120

The triangle junction: the right hand tracks lead to the depot, the left-hand tracks head toward the city and in the distance is a tram stopping at Wilkinson Street before heading north

24/03/2004 • 000121

The tramwash at the rear of the depot

24/03/2004 • 000122

Rear of the depot shed. In the foreground are the stabling roads

06/07/2004 • 000251

The office block at Wilkinson Street depot

04/07/2004 • 000789

Overall view of Wilkinson Street depot at about 3.30am, with trams stabled overnight. In the foreground is the Park and Ride car park of Wilkinson Street stop

30/08/2004 • 000795

The front of the depot shed—205 is half-in, half-out

07/10/2004 • 000948

Overall view of the depot, from Wilkinson Street stop, across the Park & Ride car Park

07/10/2004 • 000949

Trams in the stabling roads at Wilkinson Street, waiting to take up their morning duties

25/10/2004 • 000956

A tram waits for signal clearance to leave the depot and join the northbound running line at Wilkinson Street, for its first journey of the morning

25/10/2004 • 000963

Control room at the depot. In the background banks of screens show pictures from the many CCTV cameras overlooking stops and track. At the desk in front is seated the Duty Manager (on the left). The control room is linked to all stops via public address and emergency alarm systems, has direct lines to Fire, Ambulance, Police, Traffic Control and Network Rail, and can communicate with tram drivers via radio. The Duty Manager is able to monitor and, if necessary, take control of traffic junctions on the tramway, and can operate substations and isolate sections of the overhead power supply from his computer terminal

10/03/2005 • 001297

Close-up of the back of CCTV monitors in the control room. Each monitor switches between different cameras, and the output from each camera is recorded. The movement of the cameras can be controlled from here

10/03/2005 • 001298

Control room whiteboard, showing the status of the depot roads (ie. if power is isolated from the overhead supply) and the location/allocation of the trams. As well as showing which runs each tram is allocated to (bottom left), closer inspection reveals that when this picture was taken 206 and the depot shunter were on the unwired road in the depot shed, while 211 was stabled outside

10/03/2005 • 001299

Depot wheel lathe, used for reprofiling wheels and flanges without removing them from the tram. 206 is receiving attention. The lathe was manufactured by Spanish firm Talgo, more famous for building tilting trains

10/03/2005 • 001300