Latest Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Troon Harbour 19/12/2022

Opened 1812 as the terminus of the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway - a coal carrying plateway that was first in Scotland to use steam locomotives and to carry passengers.

Brighton's Electric Buses 01/12/2022

Built in 1909 for the Brighton, Hove & Preston United Omnibus Co Ltd as a re-charging station and depot for its pioneering fleet of BATTERY-ELECTRIC BUSES

White Cross Bay Aircraft Factory, Windermere 19/10/2022

Between 1941 & 1945, 35 Short Sunderland Flying Boats were built here by 1,500 workers living with their families on the nearby Calgarth Estate

Bell Rock Lighthouse Signal Station 02/09/2022

Signal station to the Bell Rock Lighthouse - 11 miles to the east. Completed 1810 by engineers John Rennie and Robert Stevenson: the oldest sea-washed rock tower in the world

Earlestown Station (formerly Newton Junction) 02/09/2022

Built in the 1830s at the site of the first 'main line' junction and triangle. One of the oldest railway passenger buildings in the world.

Talyllyn Railway, Tywyn 26/07/2022

Rheilffordd Talyllyn  Y rheilffordd gyntaf yn y byd i’w chadw

Talyllyn Railway  The world’s first preserved railway

Tywyn Wharf, Talyllyn Railway 26/07/2022

Rheilffordd Talyllyn  Y rheilffordd gyntaf yn y byd i’w chadw

Talyllyn Railway  The world’s first preserved railway

Crewe Works Narrow Gauge Railway 04/07/2022

Last remnant of the 18 inch gauge railway that ran through the LNWR Works and linked to Crewe Station via the "Spider Bridge'

Avon Lock, Tewkesbury 22/06/2022

By Royal Charter of 1636, a rare example of a lock that is still a toll station between two separate river navigations - the Avon and the Severn.

Sankey Canal, St. Helens 11/04/2022

Sankey (St. Helens) Canal Designed by Henry Berry and opened in 1757 to link the St. Helens coalfield with the River Mersey. The first industrial canal in England.