Red Wheel Sites

A vital link in the UK canal network, achieved from 1814 by two 5-lock staircases and from 1900-1911 via a unique inclined plane boat lift

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Heich Abune the Heich"  Initiated by the Caledonian Railway and opened by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway in 1924

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

Built 1897-1901.

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