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

The shaft is hollow, the material being cast steel, and is nearly 2 feet diameter, and over 25 feet long. The drums are of cast iron, the largest being 6 feet diameter, and the weight of the shaft and drums is nearly 26 tons. The whole of the work of machining and fitting up was carried out in the "G” Shop at the Swindon Works.

The following was published within the January 1929 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

The Docks Department - Hydraulic power has been installed for working sluices at the entrances to the Penarth Dock.