Red Wheel Sites

1847-1868

Built to link Waverley with the Fife ferries, this tunnel was so steep that it required trains to be cable-hauled by stationary steam engine

Inland port and community, established in the late 18th Century at the interface of the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Trent

Inaugurated in 1905, the world's oldest active motor sports venue still using its original course

Britain's oldest airport, opened 1910, and the first purpose-built commercial airport in the world, with a fine Art Deco terninal building by Stavers Tiltman, 1936

Headquarters of Short Brothers (1917-1921) and the Royal Airship Works (1924-1938) where HM Airship R101 was designed

Opened 1898 to service Edinburgh Corporation's cable-trams. Converted 1922 to build, power and maintain electric trams until 1956

WORKSHOP OF SIR GEORGE CAYLEY Bt. (1773-1857) where he developed flying machines, based on his identification of the principles of flight, and other transport innovations

Designed by Ignatius Bonomi for Stockton & Darlington Railway. The oldest railway bridge in the world still in use as such - built 1825

A fine 500ft cast-iron trough aqueduct, designed by Hugh Baird and built 1818-22, to carry the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal over the Water of Leith

Built 1770s: widened 1920s 

A causeway to carry the Great North Road across the floodplain of the River Trent. The work of John Smeaton, the 'father of civil engineering'