Linlithgow Canal Basin awarded a Red Wheel

A NATIONAL Transport Trust (NTT) Red Wheel was recently unveiled at Linlithgow Canal Basin. The Red Wheels celebrate transport heritage around the UK, with the purpose of alerting people to transport heritage that they might not be aware of.

The basin, home to Linlithgow Union Canal Society (LUCS), is the bestsurviving of the basins, wharves and stables originally constructed along the Union Canal. Today the stables house Scotland’s only Canal Museum, filled with photos, documents, models, tools and equipment telling the story of the canal, its decline, and renaissance.

The basin contains another plaque acknowledging the designation of the Union Canal as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the Institution of Civil Engineers. At the time of its unveiling in 2015, LUCS was presented with a rare original edition (April 1815) of Thomas Telford’s first report on the Union Canal.

Another canal landmark, the Leamington Lift Bridge at Lochrin Basin on the Union, was awarded a Red Wheel in July 2021.

PHOTOS: NATIONAL TRANSPORT TRUST Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian Moira Niven unveils the Transport Trust Heritage Plaque. Inset: The Red Wheel.