Red Wheel Sites

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

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

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