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

The shipments at Penarth at first sight appear to be small when compared with those at the neighbouring docks, but Penarth has a water area of only 26 acres, whereas the combined area of the Bute Docks is 111 acres, and of Barry, 80 acres.