Latest Red Wheel Sites

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.

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

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

Signal staion 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

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.

The world's first preserved railway

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

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 (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.

Designed by George Stephenson and opened in 1830 to carry the Liverpool & Manchester Railway over the Sankey valley and canal. The earliest major railway viaduct in the world.