Royal Centre is a
tram stop
A tram stop, tram station, streetcar stop, or light rail station is a place designated for a tram, streetcar, or light rail vehicle to stop so passengers can board or alight it. Generally, tram stops share most characteristics of bus stops, bu ...
of
Nottingham Express Transit
Nottingham Express Transit (NET) is a tram system in Nottingham, England. The system opened to the public on 9 March 2004 and a second phase, that more than doubled the size of the total system, opened on 25 August 2015, having been initially ...
(NET) in the centre of the
city of Nottingham
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. It derives its name from the adjacent
Theatre Royal and the
Royal Concert Hall. The stop is also close to the
Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...
, the
Victoria Centre
Victoria Centre is a shopping centre in Nottingham, England, constructed between 1967 and 1972. It contains fashion and high street chain stores as well as cafes, restaurants, a health and fitness centre, and the Nottingham Victoria bus station. ...
and the Newton Building of
Nottingham Trent University, although much of the university's City Campus is closer to the
Nottingham Trent University stop.
The stop is located on a section of Goldsmith's Street, between Talbot Street and Wollaton Street. The section was closed to normal traffic when the stop was installed in 2003, allowing trams to stop without blocking other road users. The tram stop has
side platforms
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. A
trailing crossover just to the north of the stop permits the termination of southbound trams in the stop, if circumstances prevent them continuing further into the city centre.
[
The tram stop opened on 9 March 2004, along with the rest of NET's initial system.][
With the opening of NET's phase two, Royal Centre is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between ]Hucknall
Hucknall, formerly Hucknall Torkard, is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 7 miles north of Nottingham, 7 miles south-east of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles from Mansfield and 10 miles south of Sutton-i ...
and Chilwell
Chilwell is a village and residential suburb of Nottingham, in the borough of Broxtowe of Nottinghamshire, west of Nottingham city. Until 1974 it was part of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District, having been in Stapleford Rural District until ...
, and line 2, between Phoenix Park
The Phoenix Park ( ga, Páirc an Fhionnuisce) is a large urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its perimeter wall encloses of recreational space. It includes large areas of grassland and tre ...
and Clifton
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People
*Clifton (surname)
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**Shire of Clifton
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*Clifton, Nova Scotia ...
, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
Gallery
File:Theatre Royal, Nottingham (Geograph-3466939-by-David-Hallam-Jones).jpg, The tram stop, seen beyond the Theatre Royal frontage
File:Southbound tram at Royal Centre (geograph 3652685).jpg, Tram stop looking north, showing tram only signs
File:NET tram in Diamond Jubilee livery.jpg, Tram stop looking south, with Theatre Royal to left
References
External links
*{{commonscat-inline, Royal Centre NET stop, Royal Centre tram stop
Royal Centre NET station information
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2004