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

1883 - A detailed view of the Penarth Dock extension works looking eastward toward the four new coal tips dated the 2nd June 1883.

In order to remove the bank a cofferdam has been driven part of the way across the end of the working dock. This will facilitate the removal of the masonry in the unfinished graving dock entrance. Some progress has been made with the excavation for the permanent way for the coal tip sidings. Part of the material for the tips has been provided, and they will be erected as soon as the ironwork can be procured."- Engineering [627] [499] 24th August 1883.

April 1884 - Penarth Docks - The extension of Penarth Dock was formally opened on Wednesday, when one of the new tips was brought into use for the first time in the loading of an Italian vessel named the Marina Bevenuto.

By the extension an increase of 5½ acres has been secured in the dock accommodation, and an addition of four tips, making the total number of tips fourteen. To meet this extension four lines of railway sidings and approaches have been laid down. There are two sidings for full wagons and two for empties, all gravitating.

In addition to the new sidings a subway has been made under the old line, for the purpose of accommodating workmen living at Penarth who are employed at the dock.