Latest Red Wheel Sites

Extensive canal and rail system dating from 1735, serving Britain's major explosives works. Home to 3 of UK's 26 cast iron aqueducts

The world's oldest locomotive roundhouse, erected 1839 by the North Midland Railway and in railway use for 150 years

The first purpose-built training college for railway staff, opened in 1938 and still performing its original function

An art deco icon, opened by the LMS in 1933, symbolic of the profound influence of railways on the development of Morecambe

Erected in 1924 to transport shale from quarries on Claughton Moor, this is the last operational gravity powered ropeway in the UK

Developed by The Tramway Museum Society to be the authoritative centre for the preservation, study and appreciation of British trams and tramways

Home of Timothy Hackworth, locomotive pioneer and engineer to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public steam railway

Late 18th century inland canal port with tramway interchange and associated industrial complex

Peak Forest Canal wharf & transhipment warehouse (1801), later a terminus of the Cromford & High Peak Railway (1831)

1887-1979 Aeronautical Engineer and Inventor, designer of airships, aeroplanes, the Bouncing Bomb and swing-wing aircraft, was born here