Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Penarth Dock Extension Works - 'Engineering' articles on progress . . .

This chapter provides further information, in chronological order, of the extension works at Penarth Dock. The extension works was detailed earlier within Volume One, Chapter Seven - The Dock Extension of 1883. These articles are taken from the periodical 'Engineering.' [627] [499]

November 1874 - Penarth Dock - A number of merchants and shippers of coal at Cardiff and Penarth have waited upon the directors of the Taff Vale Railway, to urge on them the desirability of increasing the dock accommodation at Penarth, now that the Bill of Lord Bute for the Taff Dock was thrown out of Parliament. On Friday afternoon the directors of the Taff vale Railway had a conference with the directors of the Penarth Dock, and it was decided to go to Parliament next session for a Bill for the extension of the dock. - Engineering [627] [499] 6th November 1874.

November 1880 - Penarth Dock - A joint meeting of the Taff Vale and Penarth Railway directors was held in London last week, to consider an agreement by which the Penarth Railway directors could take steps for enlarging of the Penarth Dock. After a long discussion it was resolved that the Penarth directors should obtain Parliamentary powers to increase their capital to 150,000l., for the purpose of enlarging the Penarth Dock.

It is proposed to extend the dock 800 ft. to the west, and place one side three coal tips and on the other side two tips ; the three on the south side to be worked on the level like the existing coal tips, and the two on the north side to be worked by hydraulic pressure.