Date: 27/05/2021

Red Wheels work in conjunction with back-up material on its website to inform, educate and enthuse visitors about turning points in our nation^s transport history. It is thus hoped to help preserve such places for the enjoyment of future generations, while motivating young people to pursue careers in the STEM subjects on which our futures depend. A QR code will direct visitors^ mobiles to the relevant page of the database on the Trust^s website.

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Were setting Red Wheels in motion to celebrate Scotlands siginificant transport sites- John Yellowlees

The Scotsman

Red Wheels work in conjunction with back-up material on its website to inform, educate and enthuse visitors about turning points in our nations transport history. It is thus hoped to help preserve such places for the enjoyment of future generations, while motivating young people to pursue careers in the STEM subjects on which our futures depend. A QR code will direct visitors' mobiles to the relevant page of the database on the Trust' s website.

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The inscription on the National Transport Trust Red Wheel, denoting a site of transport heritage, at the first Burntisland railway station, commemorating the Forth train ferry. This was unveiled by Vice-President John Cameron CBE on 16th December 2020, captured in image [[75219]].
Location: Burntisland [1st]
Company: Edinburgh and Northern Railway
16/12/2020 John Yellowlees

In the absence of the planned audience, National Transport Trust vice-president John Cameron unveiled the Red Wheel at Cockenzie on 21 September 2020. He is seen here with '1722 Waggonway Heritage Group' chair Ed Bethune in front of the new plaque and a replica wagon.
Location: Cockenzie Harbour
Company: Tranent Waggonway
21/09/2020 John Yellowlees

About thirty guests turned up in brilliant sunshine on 30th November 2019 to see a Transport Trust red wheel plaque unveiled at Wemyss Bay station and hear Gordon Masterton hail the station as a transport icon in a style, the impossibility of whose classification was surely its unique charm. He cited Simon Jenkins as having written that it had variously been called domestic revival, Queen Anne, arts-and-crafts and “chalet”, but Jenkins had found also a touch of Los Angeles Spanish, perhaps under Caledonian Railway engineer Donald Matheson’s American influence which was reflected also in architect James Miller’s inclusion of theories about passenger circulation. Friends of Wemyss Bay Station Chair Greg Beecroft conducted a guided tour beforehand and provided hospitality for guests afterwards.
Location: Wemyss Bay
Company: Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
30/11/2019 John Yellowlees

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