Latest Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Braunston Marina 28/06/2024

A hub on the canal network since 1778. Developed as a freight transfer facility and still in use for maintenance of canal craft. The last wooden working boat was built here in 1958

Annandale Street bus garage, Edinburgh 08/06/2024

A 1922 exhibition hall converted in 1926 to an Edinburgh Corporation bus depot.Now the home of Britain’s largest municipal bus company.

Victoria Swing Bridge, Edinburgh 08/06/2024

Completed 1874 to carry both road and rail traffic over the Water of Leith. Scotland’s largest counter- weighted swing bridge

Kelvin Aqueduct & Maryhill locks 24/05/2024
Inchinnan Bascule Bridge 01/05/2024

Opened 1923 to a rare design by William Scherzer, the bridge enabled much increased road and river traffic at the White Cart

A82 Tyndrum to Glencoe Village 24/04/2024

This road, built between 1928 and 1932, replaced an unsurfaced track and is an outstanding example of work to open up the Highlands to motor traffic

Leith Tramways Depot, Edinburgh 10/04/2024

This 1938 Modern Movement building held offices for the tram depot that stood behind it, where electric trams were stabled until 1956.

Volks Electric Railway, Brighton 29/03/2024

Opened in 1883 by Brighton-born inventor and engineer Magnus Volk. The oldest operational electric railway in the world

Union Chain Bridge 08/03/2024

When erected in 1820 to the design of Cdr. Samuel Brown RN, a pioneer in chain making, this was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world.

 
Blackbushe Airport 26/01/2024

Opened 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge, later BLACKBUSHE AIRPORT.  From 1946, hosted many independent airlines before closure in 1960.  Reopened 1962.