Latest Red Wheel Sites

the best surviving of the basins, wharves and stables of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal - a 32 mile counour canal designed by Hugh Baird. Opened 1822: re-opended 2002 

Former Ticket Office of the Glasgow Subway. Opened 1896 and the 3rd-oldest underground metro in the world. A 6½ mile circuit; cable-hauled until electrified in 1935

Remains of the oldest purpose-built car factory in the UK, opened 1898 by the Madelvic Motor Carriage Co which built electric vehicles

Built to cater for passengers taking the Granton-Burntisland ferry, prior to the opening of the Forth Bridge. Requisitioned for the Royal Navy 1939

Warehouse of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway 'Innocent' line, opened 1831.
The city's first railway, built to carry coal and agricultural goods. Horse and rope hauled until 1846. Closed 1968

Opened 1906 as the largest car factory outside USA. Closed 1914. A torpedo works in both World Wars and until 1969

The Kilmarnock & Troon Railway  Opened 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway – the first in Scotland to convey passengers. Converted 1846 to a contemporary railway.

Opened  1842 from Queens Street to Haymarket as Scotland's first inter-city passenger line. Until 1908, trains were cable hauled up the Cowlairs Incline

Opened 1566 and later extended. The first canal to be built in Britain since Roman times and the first to use Pound Locks.

Built 1846 by I.K. Brunel to provide 'atmospheric' (vacuum) traction for the South Devon Railway. Abandoned 1848 due to high running costs.