| Location |
Date Unveiled |
Inscription |
Red Wheel Image |
| Wemyss Bay Station, Inverclyde |
29/11/2019 |
An attractive and effective 1903 facility, by the Caledonian Railway, for the rapid trans-shipment of holiday-makers and their luggage.
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| Abbotts of Farnham |
15/9/2019 |
Between 1920 and 1972 'Abbotts of Farnham' Coachbuilders and their predecessors Page & Hunt Ltd built bespoke vehicle bodies of the highest quality on this site. |
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| Ace Cafe - London |
8/9/2019 |
Built 1938 as part of a service area for the new North Circular Road. In the 1950s and 60s, it became a magnet for young motorcyclists. |
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| Hincaster Tunnel and Horse Path |
6/9/2019 |
Opened 1819.
A prime example of a canal where boats were hauled through by hand whilst their horses took a purpose-built path over the hill. |
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| Glenfinnan Viaduct |
18/8/2019 |
Built 1897-1901.
When designed by Simpson & Wilson and built by Robert McAlpine & Sons, this was the longest mass concrete viaduct in Britain |
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| Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal |
16/8/2019 |
Designed by Thomas Telford and including the longest aqueduct span of the canal era. Opened 1811, converted to a railway in 1885, closed 1983, partially re-opened 1990 |
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| Blackburn Aircraft factory, Brough |
10/7/2019 |
Founded 1916 by aviation pioneer Robert Blackburn. One of the world's oldest surviving sites of aircraft manufacture. |
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| North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood. |
6/5/2019 |
In the 1840s, before completion of a through railway, a popular route from London to Glasgow was to Fleetwood by train and thence to Ardrossan by ship. |
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| Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway |
23/2/2019 |
Built 1874/75. The first public narrow-gauge railway in England. Since opening, this railway has carried minerals and passengers on three different gauges of track. |
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| Crystal Palace (Low Level) Station |
6/2/2019 |
Opened 1854 by the West End of London & Crystal Palace Railway to serve the 2 million annual visitors to the re-located 'Crystal Palace' |
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| West Hartlepool Station |
6/2/2019 |
Opened 1880 and, on 16th December 1914, one of three North Eastern Railway stations to suffer from WW1 enemy naval bombardment |
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| N.E.R. Petrol Electric 'Autocar' - Hartlepool |
6/2/2019 |
The North Eastern Railway ran the world's first Petrol Electric 'Autocar' - the pioneer of modern passenger trains- at Hartlepool in 1904 |
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| First recorded UK car journey - Micheldever Station, Hampshire |
23/11/2018 |
On 6th July 1895 Hon Evelyn Ellis made the first recorded UK car journey 56 miles from Micheldever Station to Datchet in a Panhard et Levassor 'horseless carriage' |
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| Norton Fitzwarren Rail Disasters |
17/11/2018 |
Recalling the Norton Fitzwarren rail disasters of November 1890 and November 1940 and the outstanding efforts of the local community |
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| Building G1 Farnborough Aerodrome |
16/10/2018 |
Build 1905/6 as the Army Balloon School and Store and incorporated into the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1918
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| Tyseley Locomotive Depot |
29/9/2018 |
Great Western Railway's Birmingham depot, erected 1908 and maintaining and operating main-line steam locomotives ever since. |
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| Roade Railway Cutting, Northampton |
8/9/2018 |
Roade Cutting - London & Birmingham Railway.
Dug 1834-1838: 56ft deep & 1.5 miles long. A major civil engineering challenge for the world's first long-distance inter-city railway. |
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| Tuckton 2nd Toll Bridge, Christchurch |
26/5/2018 |
When re-constructed in 1905, this was the longest bridge in the UK to use the "Hennebuque" system of ferro-concrete and the first to carry a tramway. |
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| "Mail Rail" Post Office Railway, London |
14/5/2018 |
6 1/2 mile, 2ft gauge driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices and main-line stations. 1927-2003 |
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| Froghall Canal Basin |
20/3/2018 |
A major complex of canal-side wharves and lime kilns fed, since 1778, by a series of railways from the Cauldon Low limestone quarries |
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