Volume Six - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Select Aspects - Various dock schemes which failed . . .

1877 - "Abandonment of the Penarth Dock Extension Scheme - At a meeting of the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Company, held at the College Green Hotel, Bristol, on Tuesday, it was decided to abandon the Penarth Dock extension scheme, for the carrying out of which Parliamentary notices have just been issued. . . . it remains to be seen whether the capitalists of the district, who have so loudly proclaimed the absolute necessity of dock extension, will now subscribe the money required for the Penarth Dock extension scheme without the material guarantee of the Taff Vale Company." Western Mail [164] 13th December 1877.

1883 - On the 1st June the funeral of John Batchelor took place at Cardiff. The Penarth Dock was being extened and opened by the Earl of Plymouth on the 9th April 1884. see also Chapter 'The Dock Extension of 1883.'

1895 - It was proposed to build a dry dock to enhance ship repair facilities at Penarth Dock but this plan did not come to fruition. The Western Mail [036] carried the story on 23rd January 1895:

“Development at Penarth – A Dry Dock to be Constructed – The Taff Vale Railway Company have long had in view the necessity for a second entrance to their dock at Penarth, in case of collisions or other accidents which occur rendering the existing entrance temporally useless. This would, according to engineering authority, involve the expenditure of a large amount of capital, which would be practically unproductive.