Red Wheel Sites

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'

Built in just 17 months in 1895, this 5-mile 3ft 6in (1067mm) gauge tramway uses the centre rail for emergency braking on the 1 in 12 gradient.

Home of Timothy Hackworth, locomotive pioneer and engineer to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public steam railway

1839-1966 Designed by Sir William Tite for the London & Southampton Railway; a major catalyst in the development of the modern port

Opened 1912 and unique in the UK for having a single car counter-balanced by a weight running directly beneath the main track

Opened 1830 as a wooden pier with horse-drawn tramway.  At 2.16 kms, the current iron structure is the longest pleasure pier in the world.

London's first railway terminus, opened 1836 by the London & Greenwich Railway, later superseded by London Bridge