Transport in Nottingham facts for kids
Nottingham is the seventh largest conurbation in the United Kingdom. Despite this, the city had a poor transport system in the 1980s. The government has in the early twenty-first century invested heavily in the transport network of Nottingham, which has led to the re-opening of the Robin Hood Line and the construction of a light rail network, Nottingham Express Transit.
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Air
East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, served by low-cost international airlines, makes the city easily accessible from other parts of the world providing daily services to many principal European destinations such as Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Oslo and Amsterdam, internal flights to Edinburgh and Belfast and limited services to transcontinental destinations such as Barbados, Mexico and Sanford, Florida. Nearby Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield also provides domestic European and transatlantic services. Birmingham Airport is about one hour's drive away and 2 hours 15 minutes on the train, providing flights to most principal European cities, New York, Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai and the Indian sub-continent.
Bus
Bus usage in Nottingham is increasing. Nottingham City Transport (NCT) operate the majority of bus services in the city. NCT was the first transport operator in the UK to use RFID technology for its EasyRider bus passes, introduced in 2000.
Trent Barton operate some local services around Nottingham and to other towns such as Beeston, Mansfield and Derby.
The two operators are also frequent winners of the National Bus Operator of the Year award. Also a growing company: yourbus. NCT and Trent Barton have a good relationship and routes are designed so they are not competing against each other. Using a Kangaroo day ticket makes it possible to use buses from both operators in a single day.
There are two bus stations in the city centre, the Broadmarsh bus station in the Broadmarsh centre and Victoria bus station behind the Victoria Centre.
Victoria bus station
Victoria bus station serves the city of Nottingham and is situated within the Victoria Centre at the northern edge of Nottingham City Centre.
Trent Barton manage the bus stations travel shop and they are the main operator of services from the bus station with many operating to Derby, Hucknall, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Queen's Medical Centre and the free CentreLink bus service to Broadmarsh bus station (and the adjacent Broadmarsh shopping centre).
Stagecoach in Mansfield, University of Nottingham HopperBus. Nottingham City Transport operate their services from stops outside on Milton Street.
Ticketing
All operators issue single journey tickets and day tickets which can be used on all the services that operator runs. The Kangaroo day ticket which allows travel on any bus, tram or local train service within the Nottingham area.
Images for kids
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Horse tram outside St Peter's Church ca. 1890
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Nottingham City Transport bus in Chilwell
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Taxis outside Nottingham station
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Nottingham Victoria Station in the early 1900s.
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Nottingham Midland station.
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A tram at the Old Market Square stop in the centre of the city.
