Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Nine - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Railway Infrastructure of Penarth Dock and Ely Tidal Harbour   . . .

Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T Class 'A' locomotive number 52 at Penarth Dock.

Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T Class 'A' locomotive number 52 at Penarth Dock Station bound for Penarth Town. Built at the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow in 1915, she became GWR loco number 440 as a result of the 1921 Railways Act mergers.

The original negative is held at the National Museum of Wales and is reproduced with permission. [629] [Museum item number : 2002.76/140] [20180316]

 

Taff Vale Railway - Interior view of Saloon No. 42 ("Penarth Clubmans" coach) - an undated film negative held within the archives of the National Museum of Wales at Nantgarw. Was this the manner in which the rich traveled, to escape the bustle and filth of the Valleys and Bute Docks to breath fresh air at their mansions situated high above the esplanade at Penarth?

The original negative is held at the National Museum of Wales and is reproduced with permission. [629] [Museum item number : 2002.76/211] [20180316]

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