Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Articles from the Great Western Railway Magazine - 1922 - 1948 . . . .

In 1849 the line was lengthened as far as Dinas in the Rhondda Fawr Valley and as far as Ynyshir in the Rhondda Fach Valley. Before 1855 it extended to Ystrad in the main valley, and on August 7th, 1856, the Taff engines ran as far as the Marquess of Bute’s colliery at Treherbert.

Up to this time the Taff Vale Company had had no opportunity of exchanging traffic with any other railway company, with the exception of a connecting line with the South Wales