Queen's Medical Centre | |||||||||||
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| Nottingham Express Transit tram stop | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Queen's Medical Centre, City of Nottingham England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°56′33″N 1°11′02″W / 52.942577°N 1.183767°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Nottingham Express Transit | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Nottingham Express Transit | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | 1 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Viaduct | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
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| 25 August 2015 | Opened | ||||||||||
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Queen's Medical Centre is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop serves the Queen's Medical Centre, a hospital in the city of Nottingham. The stop is on line 1 of the NET, from Hucknall via the city centre to Beeston and Chilwell. Trams run at frequencies that vary between four and eight trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.[1][2]
The tram stop is situated on a viaduct that rises alongside the campus of the University of Nottingham, crosses the Nottingham Ring Road (A52), runs between the South Block of the Queen's Medical Centre (to the north) and the Nottingham Treatment Centre (to the south), crosses the River Leen, and finally descends back to street level. The tram stop is on the section between the hospitals, and direct access bridges have been constructed from the platforms to the two buildings that will be opened once the necessary changes have been made within the buildings. Access is also available by staircase and lift from ground level in the hospital grounds, and by a walkway along the viaduct from another staircase and lift to the university side of the ring road.[2][3][4]
Queen's Medical Centre opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two. The adjacent bridge over the city's ring road was named the Ningbo Friendship Bridge at a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham and the Vice-Mayor of Ningbo in China. The name celebrates Nottingham's links with its twin city and the presence there of a campus of the University of Nottingham.[2][5]
The tram line through the QMC had to be specially designed to avoid electromagnetic interference which could affect hospital equipment. The overhead line masts are individually fed with power, to limit interference.[6]
- ^ "Extending your Tram Service" (PDF). Nottingham Express Transit. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Skelsey, Geoffrey (2015). Nottingham's growing tramway - Building on NET's success. Light Rail Transit Association. pp. 70–74, 85. ISBN 978-0-948106-49-1.
- ^ Robinson, Dan (27 August 2015). "Nottingham tram extension: How new QMC stop will give staff and patients an easier ride to hospital". Nottingham Post. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "QMC becomes first UK hospital linked by a tram". Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ "Nottingham Express Transit Phase 2 opens". Railway Gazette International. DVV Media UK Ltd. 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ Stephen, Paul (29 March 2017). "Light Rail Heavyweight". Rail. Bauer Media. Retrieved 24 April 2017.