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

Chief Engineer's Department - Contracts — The following contracts have been placed :-

Supply of 14 30-cwt. hydraulic capstans for Cardiff, Swansea, Penarth and Barry Docks : Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., 8, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W. 1.

The following are entries published within the Janurary 1926 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

At Penarth, re-wiring of the electric lighting system has been completed in connection with the supply of power by the Penarth Electric Lighting Company. Work in connection with the provision of new entrance gates has also been completed, the new gates having recently been floated and fixed into position. The work of providing improved siding accommodation is well in hand.

Further substantial progress was made with the introduction of 20-ton wagons for the conveyance and shipment of coal. The first shipment from these wagons took place at Port Talbot in 1924. During 1925 the wagons were also in use at Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and Barry. Some of the larger colliery firms are now taking seriously in hand the construction of these wagons, so that the Great Western policy and pioneer work in their construction will bear much fruit in the near future. The provision of the requisite shipping appliances, by building new tips or adapting or reconstructing old ones, entailed the authorisation of an expenditure of approximately £2,000,000. The position early in December was as follows ;-