Latest Red Wheel Sites
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| Manchester Ship Canal Railway - Detroit Bridge, Salford | 08/07/1905 |
1885-2009 This 1941 twin-track swing bridge used to carry part of the 231-mile MSCR - the largest private railway in the UK |
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| Queens Road Tram depot, Manchester | 08/07/1905 |
Manchester’s first electric tram depot, opened 1901. Extended 1928 and 1935 to house over 175 buses and trams |
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| Southampton Terminus Station | 08/07/1905 |
1839-1966 Designed by Sir William Tite for the London & Southampton Railway; a major catalyst in the development of the modern port |
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| Ffestiniog Railway - Porthmadog Harbour Station | 07/07/1905 |
Pioneer user of narrow gauge steam (1863) and articulated locomotives (1869) and bogie carriages (1871) in difficult terrain |
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| Duxford Airfield | 07/07/1905 |
A unique historic military airfield, operational from the First World War to the Cold War |
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| Victoria Coach Station, London | 07/07/1905 |
Art Deco style purpose-built coach station, the largest in Britain, opened in 1932 as a hub for coach services |
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| Brooklands | 07/07/1905 |
World’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit 1907-1939. Over 18,600 aircraft designed, manufactured or assembled 1907-1988 |
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| Bath Spa Station | 07/07/1905 |
1841 Focal point of IK Brunel's Great Western Railway through Bath, sympathetically designed in the pioneering phase of railway construction |
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| Shorts Building, Shortstown, Cardington | 06/07/1905 |
Headquarters of Short Brothers (1917-1921) and the Royal Airship Works (1924-1938) where HM Airship R101 was designed |
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| Claverton Pumping Station | 06/07/1905 |
Unique water-powered pump, designed by John Rennie and inaugurated 1813, to raise water 15m from the Rive Avon to the Kennet & Avon Canal |
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