Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company . . .

That the Contractors were endeavouring to arrange with Mr. Corbett for land to tip spoil on and so dispose more rapidly of the earth out of the excavations, upon which the progress of the rest of the work in a great measure depended.

19.11.1860 : The Secretary reported that Messrs. Smith & Knight had requested the Company to bring down the Stone from the Radyr Quarry to the Grange ; the quantity to be conveyed would be, so it was stated, about 800 Tons per day.

Resolved, that the Company will work Messrs. Smith & Knight's stone-traffic, on their engaging to keep an engine fully employed, and to pay 7/8d per ton per mile for Toll and power.

Read a letter dated November 7th from Mr. Luard? accompanied with a plan, stating the terms on which the Trustees of Lord Bute will give spoil tipping ground for the use of the Contractors for the Dock.

Ordered, that the matter be referred to the consideration and settlement of Messrs. Nixon and Batchelor, with Mr. Dobson.

The Secretary reported that Messrs. Smith & Knight had commenced conveying earth over the Company's Railway from the Radyr Quarry to the Ballast Hole, having formed a function with the main line by means of a pair of moveable tongues, taken off in the night and watched by a signalman appointed by them during the day.

This was approved. The charge per ton for Toll was fixed at 1d.

Ordered, that Mr. Strank? report on Greaves' wagons.

Certificate No.8 - Smith & Knight - £5,496 - 14 - 9d.

Mr. Dobson stated that Smith & Knight would tip on the Company's land across the moors from the Viaduct to the Grange Junction, and would use their own materials for forming the necessary roads.