Latest Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Sankey 'Nine Arches' Viaduct, St Helens 11/04/2022

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.

Linlithgow Canal Basin 08/04/2022

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 

Glasgow Subway 18/03/2022

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

Madelvic Motor Factory, Edinburgh 26/11/2021

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

Claverhouse (ex Granton Hotel) - Edinburgh 26/11/2021

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

Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway, Innocent railway 26/11/2021

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

Argyll Motor Works & Royal Torpedo Factory, Alexandria 19/11/2021

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

Kilmarnock and Troon Railway 19/11/2021

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.

Glasgow Queen Street Station, Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway 28/10/2021

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

Exeter Ship Canal 27/09/2021

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