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Nottingham Express Transit : Pictures : TLRS tour

On May 15th 2004, the Tramway and Light Railway Society held its Annual General Meeting in Nottingham. Before the AGM, there was a tour of the NET system, using a private tram, traversing crossovers not used in public service, and the non-preferred platforms at Station Street, The Forest, Phoenix Park and Hucknall. Here is a selection of pictures from the tour.

More pictures are to be had at Stephen Dee's NETTrams.net site.

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TLRS tour. Our tram for the day was 204, here arriving empty at Station Street east platform to pick up passengers. NET's General Manager Andy Wood is at the controls

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TLRS tour. 204 loading up, with 207 in the west platform on a public service to Phoenix Park

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TLRS tour. 204 with 207 at Station Street

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TLRS tour. 207 with 204 at Station Street. The view from the buffer stops

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TLRS tour. A few minutes before departure

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TLRS tour. A tram full of gricers

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TLRS tour. Taking the centre platform road at The Forest

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TLRS tour. Arriving at the centre platform at The Forest

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TLRS tour. There was a brief photostop at The Forest

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TLRS tour. Andy has changed ends, ready for the return to Royal Centre

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TLRS tour. Waiting for a Station Street tram to overtake us before departure from The Forest

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TLRS tour. The sight of a host of gricers piling out of a tram, taking 20 pictures of it, then all piling back on again was the source of some amusement for the 'real' passengers waiting at The Forest

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TLRS tour. The unusual sight of two trams waiting to depart The Forest southbound

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TLRS tour. All three platforms at the Forest occupied

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TLRS tour. One of our two drivers, Lynette, changing the points on the crossover at Royal Centre: we arrived at the southbound platform, changed ends and crossed over to the northbound track for the journey to Phoenix Park

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TLRS tour. Switching from southbound to northbound on the Royal Centre crossover

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TLRS tour. Arriving at the non-preferred platform at Phoenix Park—a public service tram waits for us to clear the single line section before departing for Station Street

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TLRS tour. Waiting in the non-preferred platform at Phoenix Park

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TLRS tour. Driver's-eye view from the non-preferred platform

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TLRS tour. After leaving Phoenix Park we travelled back to Wilkinson Street, changed ends and used the crossover from southbound to northbound

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