About The Wheel

Quick quirky facts

Impress your friends and relatives with some of these facts about The Wheel:

The Falkirk Wheel is 35 metres tall, the equivalent of 8 double deckers buses stacked on top of each other
Cost £17.5 million to build
1,200 tonnes of steel was used to create The Wheel
The structure contains over 14,000 bolts and 45,000 bolt holes
Over 1,000 construction staff helped to build it
The gondolas hold 500,000 litres of water, enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool
The Wheel only uses 1.5KWh of energy to turn, the same amount as it would take to boil 8 household kettles