Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .
Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The River Ely Iron Ore Wharf . . .
1885 - The O.S. map, surveyed 1878 to 1879 and published in 1885, of the River Ely Tidal Harbour indicates a railway line leading to a small wharf presumably for ballast removal and handling of iron-ore together with ten coal tips upstream. [398]
c.1879 - The track layout of the TVR leading to the Ely Tidal Harbour circa. 1879 which shows ten coal tips, the Victoria Wharf and at the seaward end, a single ballast wharf. Also stated is that the new Iron Ore Wharf (seen in dotted outline) was authorised 9th November 1885 and was completed at the 22nd July 1887. [008]
