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

Penarth is in fact unique as regards its trade, for I believe that the trade there is larger per acre than at any other dock in the world, although acreage alone is not the best test of capacity. Its trade, however, is rapidly approaching its maximum, and the provision of further dock accommodation has in consequence become necessary hence the powers we are seeking in the present Session for the construction of a dock in the immediate neighbourhood of Penarth Dock, to be called the Windsor Dock, after Lord Windsor, who owns the greater part of the land.