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 

Opened 15 September 1830. Terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the world's oldest surviving railway station

The first purpose-built training college for railway staff, opened in 1938 and still performing its original function

Locomotion was hauled here from Newcastle, re-assembled and steamed prior to the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on 27th September 1825

Designed by Thomas Telford and Ironmaster William Reynolds and completed in 1796. This is the oldest extant cast-iron canal aqueduct in the world

The largest all-masonry aqueduct in Britain, designed by John Rennie and opened in 1797 for the Lancaster Canal Navigation

Opened 1890, this Victorian funicular is the UK's only fully water powered railway and one of only three worldwide

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

6 1/2 mile, 2ft gauge driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices and main-line stations. 1927-2003

Britain's first Municipal Airport (1930), with original Hangar, Passenger Terminal Building and oldest continuously used Control Tower (1933)