Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Taff Vale Railway and Docks - 'The Engineer' Article of 1866 . . .

The engineering and general superintendence of the line and docks are deputed principally to Messrs. George Fisher, E. E. Page, and W. D. Bushell.

The whole of the works of the Penarth docks and the branch railway to the Taff Vale main line cost about £S00,000, and were leased last year to the Taff Vale Railway Company, who who guaranteed the original shareholders 4½% per cent. per annum upon the outlay they had made. The result has been a reduction in Taff Vale dividends from £10 to £9 per cent., but as the Penarth docks are newly opened it is expected that the lost ground will shortly be more than recovered.

For such a short line the number of trains running is very large, amounting to 110 up and 111 down per day, all possible energy being exercised to ensure quick despatch and to facilitate the steam coal export trade of Cardiff.