Latest Red Wheel Sites

21 broad concrete locks, a striking example of the 1930s modernisation of the London to Birmingham Grand Union Canal

Opened 1902: Britain’s only surviving cable street tramway (also in Welsh)

Situated at the junction of the Oxford and Grand Junction Canals and a hub of the English canal network since the 18th century

A complete inland port, developed on the banks of the River Severn following the arrival in 1771 of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Site of the 1829 Rainhill Locomotive Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city railway

Opened 1851 by the Buckinghamshire Railway. Sole surviving example of Joseph Paxton’s use of cast iron, timber and glass. Relocated in 2002

Launched here in 1843 as the world's largest and the first iron-hulled, screw-propelled ocean going ship. Towed home from the Falkland Isles 1970

Built 1794-1811 for the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 5.2 km in length, it is the longest, highest and deepest canal tunnel in the UK

Designed by Thomas Hine and opened in 1857 by the Great Northern Railway at the height of its competition with the Midland Railway

London's first railway terminus, opened 1836 by the London & Greenwich Railway, later superseded by London Bridge