Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Railway Magazine - Interview with Mr. Ammon Beasley - TVR - 1898 . . . .

Shortly, the late Lord Bute, who owned large tracts of property in Glamorganshire, got powers in 1830 to construct a dock or 'ship canal,' as it was called, at Cardiff, for the purpose of developing his estates, and those powers were extended in 1834, nothing whatever having been done in the interim towards constructing the dock.

In 1835 the Taff Vale line was projected, and in 1836 was, as we have seen, sanctioned by Parliament. Then the Marquis of Bute, being assured of a railway to feed his dock, exercised his powers, and the construction of the railway and dock proceeded simultaneously.

Mr. Samuel Thomas - Dock Master, Taff Vale Railway.

Naturally, Lord Bute did not like the branch to Cogan, where coal could be shipped which might otherwise come to his dock, and he persuaded the Taff Board to abandon it in