Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| Shardlow Canal Port | 07/04/2009 |
Inland port and community, established in the late 18th Century at the interface of the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Trent |
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| Ticknall Tramway | 07/04/2009 |
Part of a 12.5 mile network of horse drawn tramways, designed and built by Benjamin Outram, linking Ticknall with the Ashby Canal |
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| Barrow Hill Roundhouse | 03/04/2009 |
1870 Midland Railway roundhouse, now the last operational turntable based engine shed in the UK |
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| Douglas Bay Horse Tramway, Isle of Man | 08/01/2022 |
Opened by Thomas Lightfoot in 1876 to serve the Douglas seafront, this 3ft gauge line is the oldest horse tramway in the world |
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| Lickey Incline |
LICKEY INCLINE Opened in 1840 by the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway. With a 1 in 37 gradient over 2 miles, this is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in the UK |
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| MV Lymington and the Voith Schneider propulsion system |
MV LYMINGTON (1938 - 1972) This Lymington - Yarmouth ferry was the first British vessel to use the Voith Schneider combined propulsion and steering system |
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