Nottingham's £570m Phase Two tram network opens

Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham has become the first hospital in the country to be linked by a tram after the Phase Two extension was officially opened.

It is estimated 1,200 passengers will use the stop daily including staff, patients and visitors.

The service will run every eight minutes for 18 hours a day between 6:00am and midnight.

Queen's Medical Centre statistics:

• The hospital is 38 years old
• 6,300 staff work at the QMC
• It has 27 miles of corridors
• 2,263 people pass through its doors everyday

Nottingham's Phase One tram network opened in March 2004. Over its 11 years in service 99,900,000 journeys have been made.

• 2003/04 - 400,000
• 2004/05 - 8,500,000
• 2005/06 - 9,800,000
• 2006/07 - 10,100,000
• 2007/08 - 10,200,000
• 2008/09 - 9,800,000
• 2009/10 - 9,000,000
• 2010/11 - 9,700,000
• 2011/12 - 9,000,000
• 2012/13 - 7,400,000
• 2013/14 - 7,900,000
• 2014/15 - 8,100,000