Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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' |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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