Location |
Date Unveiled |
Inscription |
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Sankey 'Nine Arches' Viaduct - St Helens |
11/4/2022 |
Designed by George Stephenson and opened in 1830 to carry the Liverpool & Manchester Railway over the Sankey valley and canal. The earliest major railway viaduct in the world. |
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Sankey Canal - St. Helens |
11/4/2022 |
Sankey (St. Helens) Canal Designed by Henry Berry and opened in 1757 to link the St. Helens coalfield with the River Mersey. The first industrial canal in England. |
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Linlithgow Canal Basin |
8/4/2022 |
the best surviving of the basins, wharves and stables of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal - a 32 mile counour canal designed by Hugh Baird. Opened 1822: re-opended 2002 |
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Glasgow Subway |
18/3/2022 |
Former Ticket Office of the Glasgow Subway. Opened 1896 and the 3rd-oldest underground metro in the world. A 6½ mile circuit; cable-hauled until electrified in 1935 |
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Glenelg-Skye Turntable ferry “Glenachulish” |
1/3/2022 |
This 1934 car ferry service across the Kyle Rhea straits is provided by MV Glenachulish, the last manually-operated turntable ferry in the UK |
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RNAS & RAF East Fortune Airfield |
1/2/2022 |
RNAS & RAF EAST FORTUNE Fine example of a First and Second World War airfield. In 1919, R34 airship departed from here for the first return flight to the USA. |
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Scotland Street Tunnel, Edinburgh |
25/1/2022 |
1847-1868
Built to link Waverley with the Fife ferries, this tunnel was so steep that it required trains to be cable-hauled by stationary steam engine |
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Madelvic Motor Factory - Edinburgh |
26/11/2021 |
Remains of the oldest purpose-built car factory in the UK, opened 1898 by the Madelvic Motor Carriage Co which built electric vehicles |
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Claverhouse (ex Granton Hotel) - Edinburgh |
26/11/2021 |
Built to cater for passengers taking the Granton-Burntisland ferry, prior to the opening of the Forth Bridge. Requisitioned for the Royal Navy 1939 |
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Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway - Innocent railway |
26/11/2021 |
Warehouse of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway 'Innocent' line, opened 1831. The city's first railway, built to carry coal and agricultural goods. Horse and rope hauled until 1846. Closed 1968 |
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Argyll Motor Works, Alexandria |
19/11/2021 |
Opened 1906 as the largest car factory outside USA. Closed 1914. A torpedo works in both World Wars and until 1969 |
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Kilmarnock and Troon Railway |
19/11/2021 |
The Kilmarnock & Troon Railway Opened 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway – the first in Scotland to convey passengers. Converted 1846 to a contemporary railway. |
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Glasgow Queen Street Station, Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway |
28/10/2021 |
Opened 1842 from Queens Street to Haymarket as Scotland's first inter-city passenger line. Until 1908, trains were cable hauled up the Cowlairs Incline |
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Starcross Atmospheric Pumping Station |
27/9/2021 |
Built 1846 by I.K. Brunel to provide 'atmospheric' (vacuum) traction for the South Devon Railway. Abandoned 1848 due to high running costs. |
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Exeter Ship Canal |
27/9/2021 |
Opened 1566 and later extended. The first canal to be built in Britain since Roman times and the first to use Pound Locks. |
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Shoreham Airport |
22/9/2021 |
Britain's oldest airport, opened 1910, and the first purpose-built commercial airport in the world, with a fine Art Deco terninal building by Stavers Tiltman, 1936 |
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Lincoln St. Marks Station |
15/9/2021 |
Opened 1846 as the Lincoln Terminus of the Midland Railway - the first to reach the city. Re-named 1950 and closed 1985 |
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Fighting Tank - White Hart Hotel - Lincoln |
15/9/2021 |
The prototype British "Fighting Tank" was designed here in late-Summer 1915 by W.A. Tritton and Lt. W.G. Wilson RN. 400 tanks were subsequently built by Fosters of Lincoln |
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Anderson's Piano, Pass of Brander Stone Signals |
9/9/2021 |
17 semaphore signals, installed 1882-1913, which return to "danger" if wires are cut by rockfalls |
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Duke of Sutherland's Railway - Dunrobin Castle Station |
8/8/2021 |
To boost the local economy, the 3rd Duke planned and financed the railway from Golspie to Helmsdale. Opened 16th May 1871 |
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