Red Wheel Sites

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

RNAS & RAF EAST FORTUNE Fine example of a First and Second World War airfield.
In 1919, R34 airship departed from here for the first return flight to the USA.

Roade Cutting - London & Birmingham Railway.

Dug 1834-1838: 56ft deep & 1.5 miles long. A major civil engineering challenge for the world's first long-distance inter-city railway.

Opened 1927 as "The smallest public railway in the world" and operated continuously, with original infrastructure and locomotives, ever since.

Extensive canal and rail system dating from 1735, serving Britain's major explosives works. Home to 3 of UK's 26 cast iron aqueducts

Very early purpose-built garages designed by the motoring pioneer Sir David Salomons

Opened in 1884, replacing an earlier hoist. This is the oldest operational water-balanced funicular in the UK.

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.

Sankey (St. Helens) Canal Designed by Henry Berry and opened in 1757 to link the St. Helens coalfield with the River Mersey. The first industrial canal in England.