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

The following are entries published within the May 1924 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

Quick Coal Shipment — On the morning of March 29 the steamer Elvet was berthed at Penarth Dock at 8.5 a.m. under Nos. 19 and 20 hoists, and immediately commenced loading. At 12.50 p.m. the vessel finished loading both cargo and bunkers, 1,720 tons of cargo and 51 tons of bunkers having been taken aboard in four hours and five minutes, fifty minutes of which were taken in shipping the bunkers. The speed at which the cargo was shipped was approximately 530 tons per hour.

Contracts — The following contracts have been placed :—

Renewal of capstans, Penarth Dock :— Messrs. Fielding & Platt, Ltd., Gloucester.

Repairs to steam hopper barges Nos. 3 and 8, Cardiff : Penarth Pontoon Slipway & Ship Repairing Company, Penarth.

Docks Department - New Works - The Directors have authorised the following new works :—

The two pairs of gates in the entrance to Penarth Basin are in need of renewal. The outer pair have not been used for some years. It is proposed to dispense with these, and to provide new gates in the case of the inner pair only.

The following was published within the July 1924 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

Docks Department - New Works - The Directors have authorised the following new works :—

In order to increase the pressure of water and so to facilitate the watering of ships and to improve domestic supplies, the 3-in. water main at Penarth Docks is to be replaced by one of 6-in. diameter.