Red Wheel Sites

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

Buillt on a private branch line by the Edinburgh & Leith Gas Commissioners to serve their workers in an area of limited public transport. 1902- 1942 

Granton Lighthouse, Stores and Buoy Yard
Storage, engineering and testing facility.  Built in 1868/69 by the  Commissioners of Northern Light Houses

Opened 1902: Britain’s only surviving cable street tramway (also in Welsh)

The Lizard to Helston Station bus service inaugurated in August 1903 was the first railway-operated motor bus service in the UK

Parallel tunnels, approx. 2,5km long,, opened 1777 and 1827 to handle the heavy traffic on the Trent & Mersey Canal - Brindley's 'Grand Trunk Canal' 

21 broad concrete locks, a striking example of the 1930s modernisation of the London to Birmingham Grand Union Canal

"Sutton Stop" 

Junction of Brindley's Coventry and Oxford Canals of the 1760s, modified in the 1830s. Traditional mooring of working narrowboats.

Part of the original train shed from Haymarket station, which opened in 1842 as the eastern terminus of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway

Used 1905-34 by Manchester Corporation Tramways. Reopened 1980 incorporating the oldest section of original tram track in the UK