Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TAFF-VALE RAILWAY

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))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC

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