Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - Some newspaper reports from the 1890's

With the exception of three, the tips at Penarth are not sufficiently elevated to load large steamers, but those which the company now propose to erect will be high enough to load any vessel coming into the dock. The decision of the company is taken by some as an indication that the Windsor Dock idea has been abandoned, and confirmation of this is found in the renewal of friendship between the Taff and Cardiff Railway Companies. It should be borne in mind that at least five years must now elapse before the Windsor Dock could be completed provided the company obtained Parliamentary powers next session and the erection of three tips to relieve the pressure in the meantime cannot be relied upon as an indication that the new dock scheme has been abandoned.

It is quite true that the Taff and Cardiff Railway Companies are working in better harmony now than for some years past, but it is impossible to say how long it will last. It may ripen into an amalgamation or a working agreement, but, whatever happens eventually, we will have reason to believe that the promoters of the Windsor Dock are prepared in the meantime to make another attempt to obtain Parliamentary powers. With the Bill once more revived, the Taff Vale Company would be in a stronger position to negotiate with their rivals than if the proposed dock were finally abandoned." Evening Express [135] 16th February 1899.

An advertisement from the Cardiff and Suburban Commercial Directory [180] of 1891-92 for coal delivered, not by steam power, but by horse-power!