Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Froghall Canal Basin 12/07/1905

A major complex of canal-side wharves and lime kilns fed, since 1778, by a series of railways from the Cauldon Low limestone quarries

Garrett Long Shop Works, Leiston 17/07/1905

Richard Garrett & Sons. Agricultural engineers from 1778. In 1853, built the pioneering ‘Long Shop’ for the flow-line production of steam engines.

Gas Street Basin, Birmingham 06/07/1905

From 1795-1815, transhipment point between Birmingham Canal Navigations and Worcester & Birmingham Canal across 'The Worcester Bar'

Glasgow Queen Street Station, Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway 15/07/1905

Opened  1842 from Queens Street to Haymarket as Scotland's first inter-city passenger line. Until 1908, trains were cable hauled up the Cowlairs Incline

Glasgow Subway 16/07/1905

Former Ticket Office of the Glasgow Subway. Opened 1896 and the 3rd-oldest underground metro in the world. A 6½ mile circuit; cable-hauled until electrified in 1935

Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal 13/07/1905

Designed by Thomas Telford and including the longest aqueduct span of the canal era. Opened 1811, converted to a railway in 1885, closed 1983, partially re-opened 1990

Gleneagles Hotel 18/07/1905

GLENEAGLES HOTEL

"HEICH ABUNE THE HEICH"

Initiated by the Caledonian Railway

and opened by the London, Midland &

Scottish Railway in 1924

Glenelg-Skye Turntable ferry “Glenachulish” 17/07/1905

This 1934 car ferry service across the Kyle Rhea straits is provided by MV Glenachulish, the last manually-operated turntable ferry in the UK

Glenfinnan Viaduct 13/07/1905

Built 1897-1901.

When designed by Simpson & Wilson and built by Robert McAlpine & Sons, this was the longest mass concrete viaduct in Britain

Gloucester Docks 06/07/1905

Britain's best preserved 19th century inland port, accessible from the Severn estuary since 1827 via the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal