Nottingham NET tram 208 approaches The Forest tram stop, 11th March 2010. 208 is one of a fleet of fifteen Bombardier five segment articulated INCENTRO trams built at Derby in 2002/03. They seat 64 passengers and have a maximum capacity of 191 passengers. They operate from a 750V dc overhead line system and have a top speed of 50mph.

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Nottingham NET tram 209 waits to departure from Nottingham Station Street tram stop with a service for Hucknall, 11th March 2010. Station Street was at this point in time the current city terminus of the Nottingham NET system becoming a “through” tram stop when lines 2 and 3 out to Chilwell and Clifton were built, which were in 2010 at the early contract tendering phase.

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Nottingham NET tram 215 waits to departure from The Forest tram stop with a service into the city, 11th March 2010.

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An unidentified Arriva Cross Country class 220 Voyager heads north through Ulleskelf, 4th March 2010. The unit is running in the path of the 08:28 Penzance – Glasgow Central service. With the unit numbers only displayed in small characters on the leading valence class 220/221 unit recognition can also be difficult.

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Mark I Tourist Second Open (TSO) E3809 in faded British Railways Maroon livery stands in the yard at Swanwick, 21st March 2010.

Vehicle History
With the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the newly formed British Railways inherited four distinct designs of passenger coaching stock, which continued to be built after nationalisation. However, British Railways soon embarked upon the design of a standard passenger coach for future requirements. By taking the best elements of each of the four pre-nationalisation railways and also adding in an improved requirement for crash worthiness, the Mark I design was introduced. This featured a steel underframe designed to withstand end forces about three times greater than previous stock, onto which was constructed the specific body required. Following Pullman Company designs, all coaches had buckeye automatic couplings and Pullman gangways (for ease of maintenance). The bodies were constructed from steel using standard components, such as windows, doors, fixtures and fittings. The first coaches appeared in 1952 and they continued to be built until 1963. Many different internal layouts were built for specific services, each having a specific code allocated for the layout. E3809 was built at York in 1953 as part of lot 30079 and feature 64 second class seats in an open plan layout (eight bays of four each side of a central aisle). These coaches had the highest seating capacity of all the Mark I’s built and were primarily built for excursion traffic. E3809 was withdrawn in the 1980’s and is still in as built condition (i.e. vacuum braked, steam heat, B1 bogies) and clearly demonstrates area’s of the design prone to corrosion.

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