Red Wheel Sites

Opened 1722. Scotland's earliest railway, built to carry coal on wooden rails, using gravity and horse power. Fought accross in the Battle of Prestonpans 1745

Opened 1812 as the terminus of the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway - a coal carrying plateway that was first in Scotland to use steam locomotives and to carry passengers.

When re-constructed in 1905, this was the longest bridge in the UK to use the "Hennebuque" system of ferro-concrete and the first to carry a tramway.

Great Western Railway's Birmingham depot, erected 1908 and maintaining and operating main-line steam locomotives ever since.

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

Talyllyn Railway  The world’s first preserved railway

When erected in 1820 to the design of Cdr. Samuel Brown RN, a pioneer in chain making, this was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world.

Art Deco style purpose-built coach station, the largest in Britain, opened in 1932 as a hub for coach services

Completed 1874 to carry both road and rail traffic over the Water of Leith. Scotland’s largest counter- weighted swing bridge

Opened in 1883 by Brighton-born inventor and engineer Magnus Volk. The oldest operational electric railway in the world

An attractive and effective 1903 facility, by the Caledonian Railway, for the rapid trans-shipment of holiday-makers and their luggage.