Red Wheel Sites

Designed by Thomas Hine and opened in 1857 by the Great Northern Railway at the height of its competition with the Midland Railway

Opened 1851 by the Buckinghamshire Railway. Sole surviving example of Joseph Paxton’s use of cast iron, timber and glass. Relocated in 2002

PICKFORD'S STABLES.  Prior to WWII, a significant proportion of West London freight was still transported by Pickford's from a state-of-the-art stable facility, capable of holding 270 horses

Opened in 1805 as the tallest navigable aqueduct in the world (also in Welsh)

Manchester’s first electric tram depot, opened 1901. Extended 1928 and 1935 to house over 175 buses and trams

Site of the 1829 Rainhill Locomotive Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city railway

Built 1874/75. The first public narrow-gauge railway in England. Since opening, this railway has carried minerals and passengers on three different gauges of track. 

The former workshop of a 1.22m(4ft) gauge mineral railway, the first true railway in Cornwall 1824-1915

1913-1961 Seaplane and Flying Boat station. Base for the High Speed Flight, winners of the Schneider Trophy 1927, 1929, 1931

Opened 1653: one of the first rivers to be successfully improved for commercial traffic and a prototype for many subsequent navigations