Clifton South is a tram stop and

Park & Ride A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rap ...

site on the

Nottingham Express Transit Nottingham Express Transit (NET) is a tram system in Nottingham, England. The concept of a modern tramway to reduce road congestion and promote urban renewal was formally identified during the late 1980s while detailed planning was undertake ...

(NET) network. It is situated in the Borough of Rushcliffe, just to the south-west of the large

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suburb of Clifton, on the

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. The Park & Ride site has a capacity of over 1000 cars. There is also an interchange with local bus services. The tram stop is the terminus of line 2 of the NET, to

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via Clifton,

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and the centre of

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. The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the twin terminal tracks, with one of the platforms being long enough to accommodate, if necessary, two trams. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. A half-hourly express bus service, the ''Skylink Express'', links the stop to

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. The Clifton South stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two. In 2023, extension of the NET to Clifton South was listed in the Department for Transport's list of projects to be funded by the cancellation of Phase 2 of

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, despite the tram stop already being operation for nearly a decade by that point.

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File:Clifton Park & Ride (geograph 4632143).jpg, Part of the Park & Ride site File:Clifton South Tram Stop (geograph 4791203).jpg, The tram stop seen from the bus interchange File:Bus turning area, Clifton South tram terminus (2) (geograph 4782060).jpg, The bus interchange seen from the tram stop

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Nottingham Express Transit stops Park and ride schemes in the United Kingdom Clifton, Nottinghamshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015