running from Station Street (at the north) and the tram stop link over station platforms 1–5 to platform 6 and car parking facilities at Queen's Road (at the south). The footbridge carries footpath 28, the only traffic-free crossing over the Midland Main Line in Nottingham. Footpath 28 was previously diverted from the demolished footbridge 21 to the present footbridge 20B during the 1990s. The original route formed part of the Trent Bridge Footway, between the centre of Nottingham and the river crossing at Trent Bridge. In 2004, Nottingham City Council stated that right of way over the footbridge would be closed, following the completion of a multi-storey car park. Alternative pavement improvement works were scheduled for Queens Road in February 2009. During 2008–2012, BPR Architects submitted designs for automated ticket gate (ATG) barrier installations at , , and Nottingham station concourses plus both ends of Nottingham footbridge 20B. BPR's design included four ATG barriers on the north end of the footbridge itself, plus a new enclosure and four barriers between the car park and platform 6 at the south end. A procedure to permanently stop-up the right-of-way commenced on 19 March 2010, A planning application for barriers was filed on 29 March 2010 and withdrawn again on 10 May 2010. Following a public inquiry held during 8–9 November 2011, the stopping up order was denied; the inspector summing up: The footbridge was scheduled to be closed temporarily in November 2017; the reasons given were "making improvements" and "essential maintenance work". New bridge and tram stop To facilitate the Nottingham Express Transit's phase two extension into the south of the city, it was decided to have the tram line cross the station on the line of the original Great Central Railway viaduct, which had been closed to passenger trains in 1967 and goods in 1973. This required a bridge, crossing from the existing Station Street stop, which closed, over both the station and Queen's Road. Construction of the tram bridge started on 10 April 2012 and the bridge was jacked into place in May 2013. The tram bridge design is a Warren truss design made of diameter steel tubes. The main bridge is wide between the truss centrelines, with two equal spans of . The bridge is officially called the Karlsruhe Friendship Bridge, after Nottingham's twin city of Karlsruhe, Germany. The new Nottingham Station tram stop was constructed on the bridge,