Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway, Innocent railway | 26/11/2021 |
Warehouse of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway 'Innocent' line, opened 1831. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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