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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. We closely followed a Hucknall tram to Bulwell, to traverse the crossover northbound-southbound

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TLRS tour. We waited for the Hucknall tram to depart the platform at Bulwell

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TLRS tour. Drawing up to just short of the platform, ready to change ends and use the crossover at Bulwell

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TLRS tour. From Bulwell we went back south as far as Highbury Vale, then used the crossover to cross southbound to northbound. Andy Wood operates the manual points

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TLRS tour. Waiting at the Highbury Vale crossover for a northbound tram to pass

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TLRS tour. On the Highbury Vale crossover

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TLRS tour. Following a service tram closely to Bulwell. From there we waited for the single line sections between stops to be clear before proceeding

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TLRS tour. Arriving at Hucknall, we used the non-preferred platform

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TLRS tour. Two trams at Hucknall—our 204 and 210 in public service

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TLRS tour. 204 in the non-preferred platform at Hucknall. There was another photo stop before the return to the city

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TLRS tour. Our two drivers for the day, Andy Wood (NET's General Manager) and Lynette

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TLRS tour. TLRS members pose for group photographs

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TLRS tour. The special tram's working instructions. Click here to see this schedule in web page format, or click here for a Word for Windows version (note: not the original NET file!)

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TLRS tour. The TLRS members alighted at Nottingham Trent University for their AGM, leaving just a handful of passengers who wanted setting down at stops in the city. This is the inside of 204 between Old Market Square and Lace Market—a tram this empty in the city centre is a very rare sight indeed

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