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TAFF-VALE RAILWAY, a railway in Glamorgan; from Merthyr-Tydvil, down the valley of the Taff, to Cardiff docks, with two short branches. It was authorized in 1836; it has an aggregate of 54 miles; it. includes, by lease, the Aberdare and the Penarth lines; and it has connexion, by working, with the Llantrissant and Taff Vale and the Cowbridge.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Glamorgan AncC |
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