Red Wheel Sites

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

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.

Unique survivor, the opulence of whose tiles, mosaics, porcelain and marble recalls the days when "doon the watter" was the holiday experience for thousands of Glaswegians

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