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Bombardier Incentro AT6/5 (Nottingham Express Transit)
Nottingham Express Transit's first trams: 15 low-floor Incentros built by Bombardier at Derby in 2002-03 for Line One, opened in 2004. Each is 108 ft (33 m) long in five sections. All 15 were refurbished in 2013 and again from 2019, when they took a livery closer to the Citadis trams'.
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Liveries 1
Nottingham Express TransitNET (revised, 2019)Silver, dark green and black, white-edged doors, a grey-teal crescent on the cab side; from photographs of 209 (2025) and 201 (2020)Shown aboveFormer liveries 2
Original liveryRan as Nottingham Express TransitFormer2004 to 2013Not drawn yet
First refurbished liveryRan as Nottingham Express TransitFormer2013 to 2019Not drawn yet
- Type
- Tram, five sections, low floor
- Builder
- Bombardier Transportation, Derby
- Built
- 2002–2003
- In service
- since 2004
- Lines
- Nottingham Express Transit
- Formation
- Five sections, 108 ft (33 m) long, double-ended: a cab section at each end and a short centre section, each on one bogie, with a suspended section between them on each side; a single door on each cab section and two double doors on each suspended section
- Trains in fleet
- 15
- Top speed
- 50 mph (80 km/h)
- Power
- 750 V DC overhead, single-arm pantograph · how it works
- Bogies
- Bombardier Incentro bogies, two motor and a trailer, behind silver wheel covers in dark arches (Nottingham Express Transit)
- Train length
- 108 ft (33.00 m)
- Profile
- tram
- Seats per train
- 62
- Total capacity
- 62 seats and 129 standing (TheTrams.co.uk); 190 in all (British Trams Online)
- Status
- In service: all 15, numbered 201-215, on both lines alongside the Citadis trams; eight in the revised livery and seven in adverts in October 2026 (British Trams Online, 3 October 2026). 207 was repaired at Alstom's Derby works from June to December 2025.
Sources
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- Nottingham Express Transit fleet list British Trams Online, updated 3 October 2026numbers 201-215; built 2002-3 by Bombardier, Derby; seats; 50 mph (80 km/h); single-arm pantograph; refurbishments; liveries and status in October 2026
- Nottingham Express Transit: Trams TheTrams.co.uk (Peter Courtenay), fleet list updated 27 August 2015five articulated sections, three on bogies; 108 ft (33 m); 50 mph (80 km/h); 62 seated and 129 standing; 750 V DC; delivered 2003
- Rail Accident Report 02/2024: Derailment of a tram at Bulwell, Nottingham, 12 June 2023 Rail Accident Investigation Branch, March 202415 Incentros among the 37 trams, used interchangeably on all routes; the operator
- In Pictures: New look for NET Incentros British Trams Online, 5 June 2019the 2019 refurbishment and its revised livery
- Bombardier Incentro AT6/5 Wikipediawidth, height, wheelbase and wheels (cross-check only; the drawing uses the wheelbase and wheels)
- '20200810 NET 201.jpg' (photograph: Incentro 201 whole, three-quarter, Cator Lane; CC0) Wikimedia Commons (Alex Noble), 10 August 2020positions of the doors, windows, joints and wheel covers; side heights (indicative drawing)
- 'Nottingham Tram 209, 2025-10-16.jpg' (photograph: Incentro 209's cab section, three-quarter; CC BY 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tony Hisgett), 16 October 2025the livery in October 2025 and its colours; the cab; the wheel covers close
- '20190420-NET-213.jpg' (photograph: Incentro 213 whole, three-quarter, pantograph raised; CC0) Wikimedia Commons (Alex Noble), 20 April 2019the pantograph's place, raised
- 'NET trams 208 & 202.jpg' (photograph: Incentros 208 and 202 head-on, Wilkinson Street; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Chris McKenna (Thryduulf)), 14 November 2005the front's height against its width
- The Highway Code: road works, level crossings and tramways (rules 288 to 307), rule 307 Department for Transport (GOV.UK), accessed 10 October 2026, p. rule 307the "In operation" drawing's contact wire: 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m), the normal height of tramway wires over a carriageway
- In Pictures: Trams stored in Wilkinson Street Depot yard (news item with photographs) British Trams Online, 20 April 2024the coupler behind a front cover: Incentro 202 stored with the cover removed (set BC11, 20 October 2026; layout only)
- The Highway Code: road works, level crossings and tramways (rules 288 to 307), rule 307 Department for Transport (GOV.UK), accessed 10 October 2026, p. rule 307the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m) above rail, the normal height of tramway wires over a carriageway
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- Width (7 ft 10 in (2.40 m)), height (11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)), floor (1 ft 2 in (352 mm)), wheels (2 ft 2 in (660 mm) new), weight (39.3 t) and motors (8 x 45 kW): Wikipedia only, citing Bombardier's 2006 data sheet (web archive, not read), so not given as facts
- Seats: 62 (British Trams Online, TheTrams.co.uk) or 54 + 8 folding (Wikipedia, citing Bombardier); standing 129 (TheTrams.co.uk, Wikipedia)
- Builder's name: Bombardier, Derby (British Trams Online); the design was Adtranz's Incentro, Adtranz being bought by Bombardier in 2001 (Commons' category; not checked in a primary source)
- The drawing: indicative, laid out from photographs (positions to about 0.3 m; heights scaled to an estimated 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) roof; the front estimated from three-quarter views)
- The pantograph's place: on a suspended section by its joint with the centre section, read from two raised views (201, 2020; 213, 2019) through perspective; no folded side-on view was found
- Colours: sampled from 209 in overcast light (2025) and 201 in sun (2020), and set between them
- The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.
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