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Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - 1911 - The Penarth Dock of the Taff Vale Railway - Railway News Article . . .

Steamer on Pontoon, Penarth Dock.

• The above photograph entitled 'Steamer on Pontoon, Penarth Dock' appeared within The Railway News periodical published during February 1911 together with a comprehensive description of the facilities of the port. The vessel is the s.s. 'Ethelhilda' of Whitby being 2,902 gross tons (2,430 tons displacement) which was lifted on the new pontoon of the Penarth Pontoon, Slipway & Ship Repairing Company Limited on the 10th March 1910.

Many thanks to the Welsh Railways Research Circle for this information. - The Railway News [435] 11th February 1911 - [WRRC Resource : TV 125] [737]  [20200129]

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