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By grandecheese

Site of Skew Bridge - Cardiff Railway

Did a bit of industrial archaeology today. Tracking down (no pun intended) the Cardiff Railway and where it went after it's current terminus at Coryton. Well, here it is, or as close as I could get to it. It crossed the Taff on high embankments, which even had to have a tunnel cut through one to allow a mill race to function, by way of a skew bridge which was only used once as the Marquis of Bute was unable to come to an agreement with the owners of the Taff Vale Co. to allow a connection at Rhydyfelin. That was really speculative. Eventually the whole track bed would be removed back to first Tongwnlais and then Coryton in the northern part of the city. Bute's legacy for this venture would be the dual carriageway A470 which now uses his route up to this point.

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