Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Standedge Tunnel 23/07/2011

Built 1794-1811 for the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 5.2 km in length, it is the longest, highest and deepest canal tunnel in the UK

Starcross Atmospheric Pumping Station 27/09/2021

Built 1846 by I.K. Brunel to provide 'atmospheric' (vacuum) traction for the South Devon Railway. Abandoned 1848 due to high running costs.

Stoneygate Tram Depot, Leicester 15/05/2016

A rare example of a 'District Car Shed' built to stable and service trams on a newly extended and electrified municipal tram route

Stourport Canal & River Basins 12/10/2011

A complete inland port, developed on the banks of the River Severn following the arrival in 1771 of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome 01/10/2020

Operational 1916-19. The most complete former Royal Flying Corps aerodrome, part of London's air defence against attacks by German airships and bombers.

Talyllyn Railway, Tywyn 26/07/2022

Rheilffordd Talyllyn  Y rheilffordd gyntaf yn y byd i’w chadw

Talyllyn Railway  The world’s first preserved railway

Tardebigge top lock 06/10/2015

Summit of the 30 lock Tardebigge fight - the longest in the UK. From 1810-1814, site of an experimental man-powered boat lift

Taunton Bus & Coach Station 12/12/2014

An archetypal 'hub' station, opened 1952, designed by Tilling Group architect HA Starkey for the Western National Omnibus Co.

Taylor's Boatyard, Graving Lock & Dock, Chester 12/12/2017

A comprehensive boatyard facility, developed from the 1790s and later home of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company's fleet

Tees Transporter Bridge - Middlesbrough 07/04/2017

One of only two working transporter bridges in Britain and the largest of its kind in the world.