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GLENEAGLES HOTEL

"HEICH ABUNE THE HEICH"

Initiated by the Caledonian Railway

and opened by the London, Midland &

Scottish Railway in 1924

LONGDON-on-TERN AQUEDUCT Designned by Thomas Telford and Ironmaster William Reynolds and completed in 1796. This is the oldest extant cast-iron canal aqueduct in the world

CENTRAL TRAMWAY One of the five funicular railways built to ease access between Scarborough town and beach. Opened 1881 and in the same ownership ever since

WORKSHOP OF SIR GEORGE CAYLEY Bt. (1773-1857) where he developed flying machines, based on his identification of the principles of flight, and other transport innovations

BRAUNSTON WHARF A hub on the canal network since 1778. Developed as a freight transfer facility and still in use for maintenance of canal craft. The last wooden working boat was built here in 1958

ANNANDALE STREET BUS GARAGE A 1922 exhibition hall converted in 1926 to an Edinburgh Corporation bus depot.Now the home of Britain’s largest municipal bus company.

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

Opened 1923 to a rare design by William Scherzer, the bridge enabled much increased road and river traffic at the White Cart

This road, built between 1928 and 1932, replaced an unsurfaced track and is an outstanding example of work to open up the Highlands to motor traffic

This 1938 Modern Movement building held offices for the tram depot that stood behind it, where electric trams were stabled until 1956.

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

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.

Opened 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge, later BLACKBUSHE AIRPORT.  From 1946, hosted many independent airlines before closure in 1960.  Reopened 1962.

RNAS & RAF EAST FORTUNE Fine example of a First and Second World War airfield.
In 1919, R34 airship departed from here for the first return flight to the USA.

Shrewsbury Abbey Station. Terminus of the 'Potts' Railway (1866-80). Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway (1911-1933) and War Department lines (1940-60).

1831 railhead of Dundee & Newtyle Railway - the first in the North of Scotland - which used rope hauled inclines, horses, sails and locomotives to access Strathmore via The Sidlaws

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

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

Founded 1848 and, for over a century, a leading manufacturer and exporter of agricultural machinery and military hardware