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

To-day they are teeming with people, but, unhappily for the Taff Vale Railway, with people who are not given to travel. Since I have been here I have increased the passenger train service by 40 per cent., and there has been absolutely no increase in the receipts from passengers, so that it is possible for the most tempting facilities to travel not to be appreciated."

"I believe from the very first the Taff Vale Railway directors occupied the most fortunate but very unique position of carrying a larger traffic than had been estimated for, despite the very liberal scale on which the estimates of traffic were usually drawn up?"

"I can hardly say that although from the first the traffic exceeded the published expectations ; but I very much doubt whether the traffic of any railway ever exceeded the anticipations of its promoters - promoters being as a rule of a very sanguine disposition.