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

February 1883 - Penarth New Dock - Considerable progress has been made during the last six months, although the weather for a great part of the time has been unfavourable. About two-thirds of the excavation is now completed, and the greater part of the dock wall is finished and ready for coping. - Engineering [627] [499] 23rd February 1883

March 1883 - A Dynamite Importation - The first consignment of dynamite directly imported  into Cardiff has just been received by by Messrs. J. Williams and Sons. This firm having been granted a special license by the Home Office to import dynamite, the steamship 'Carl' arrived in Penarth Dock a few days since from Rotterdam with 200 cases, containing an aggregate of five tons, this being the largest quantity which is permitted to be imported at any one time.

This explosive is to be utilised for blasting at the working of the Penarth Dock Extension and at the Severn Tunnel Works, and it is the intention of Messrs. Williams and Sons to receive periodical consignments, as it is expected that dynamite will supersede gunpowder in the locality in mining operations. - Engineering [627] [499] 30th March 1883.

August 1883 - Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway -  The engineer's report on the dock extension works is as follows : "During the last six months steady progress has been made with the excavation, and little now remains to be done in the dock itself, excepting the removal of the bank, which separates the working part of the dock from the extension.