Latest Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Claverton Pumping Station 12/09/2012

Unique water-powered pump, designed by John Rennie and inaugurated 1813, to raise water 15m from the Rive Avon to the Kennet & Avon Canal

Gloucester Docks 09/09/2012

Britain's best preserved 19th century inland port, accessible from the Severn estuary since 1827 via the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

Lune Aqueduct, Lancaster 06/09/2012

The largest all-masonry aqueduct in Britain, designed by John Rennie and opened in 1797 for the Lancaster Canal Navigation

Redruth and Chasewater Railway 01/08/2012

The former workshop of a 1.22m(4ft) gauge mineral railway, the first true railway in Cornwall 1824-1915

Iron Trunk Aqueduct, Wolverton 22/07/2012

Oldest broad canal iron trough aqueduct; opened 1811 as the fourth attempt by the Grand Junction Canal to cross the River Great Ouse

Salomons Motor Stables, Tunbridge Wells 28/05/2012

Very early purpose-built garages designed by the motoring pioneer Sir David Salomons

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct 28/05/2012

Opened in 1805 as the tallest navigable aqueduct in the world (also in Welsh)

Gas Street Basin, Birmingham 23/05/2012

From 1795-1815, transhipment point between Birmingham Canal Navigations and Worcester & Birmingham Canal across 'The Worcester Bar'

Edstone Aqueduct, Stratford on Avon 22/05/2012

Opened 1816 for the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. At 145m, this cast iron aqueduct is the longest canal aqueduct in England

GWR Road Motor Services, Helston to The Lizard 09/05/2012

The Lizard to Helston Station bus service inaugurated in August 1903 was the first railway-operated motor bus service in the UK