Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| Marple Grand Aqueduct | 21/06/2016 |
This elegant aqueduct, designed by Benjamin Outram and built 1784 - 1800, is the tallest masonry-arch aqueduct in the UK |
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| Stoneygate Tram Depot, Leicester | 15/05/2016 |
A rare example of a 'District Car Shed' built to stable and service trams on a newly extended and electrified municipal tram route |
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| Bath Green Park (Midland) Station | 30/04/2016 |
From 1874, the northern terminus of the 72-mile Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line to Bournemouth, built over difficult terrain |
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| Camden Road Station | 15/04/2016 |
(formerly Camden Town) Opened 1870, one of six Italianate stations designed by Edwin Henry Horne for the fast-growing North London Railway |
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| Tardebigge top lock | 06/10/2015 |
Summit of the 30 lock Tardebigge fight - the longest in the UK. From 1810-1814, site of an experimental man-powered boat lift |
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| Cooper Car Company Works, Surbiton | 01/08/2015 |
1946-1965 Birthplace of the first World Championship-winning, rear-engined Formula 1 GP cars and of the Mini-Cooper |
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| Bridgnorth Cliff Railway | 01/08/2015 |
Designed and opened in 1892 by George Croydon Marks, Hydraulic Engineer. Water-balance powered until 1944 and since by electricity |
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| Saltburn Cliff Lift | 23/06/2015 |
Opened in 1884, replacing an earlier hoist. This is the oldest operational water-balanced funicular in the UK. |
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| Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb | 10/05/2015 |
Inaugurated in 1905, the world's oldest active motor sports venue still using its original course |
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| Blisworth Inland Port | 09/05/2015 |
1796-1805 Busy transhipment centre and end of a horse drawn tramway across Blisworth Hill during the protracted building of Blisworth Canal Tunnel |
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