Red Wheel Sites

A flight of 16 locks, in total 64m deep. Opened in 1805 to unite the Peak Forest Canals, previously connected by a horse-drawn tramway.

This elegant aqueduct, designed by Benjamin Outram and built 1784 - 1800, is the tallest masonry-arch aqueduct in the UK

Founded 1848 and, for over a century, a leading manufacturer and exporter of agricultural machinery and military hardware

The world's first underground railway opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863

An art deco icon, opened by the LMS in 1933, symbolic of the profound influence of railways on the development of Morecambe

Flying ground of the Aero Club, chosen 1909 by the Short Brothers for the world's first aircraft factory, building Wright Brothers' "Flyers"

The North Eastern Railway ran the world's first Petrol Electric 'Autocar' - the pioneer of modern passenger trains- at Hartlepool in 1904 

Developed by The Tramway Museum Society to be the authoritative centre for the preservation, study and appreciation of British trams and tramways

In the 1840s, before completion of a through railway, a popular route from London to Glasgow was to Fleetwood by train and thence to Ardrossan by ship.

Recalling the Norton Fitzwarren rail disasters of November 1890 and November 1940 and the outstanding efforts of the local community