Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - Penarth Dock and Llandough Fields Reclamation Report : 1989 . . .

It is for this reason that there is a level area of land by the railway, overlooking the river below. It may be noted that the river was realigned past this part of the study area in the post war period.

Area 4 - Cogan Pill to west end of extended dock :

At the time the dock was opened, three small bridges carried the few railway tracks in this area over an access track south of Cogan Pill. Subsequently, as further tracks were added the access became a ' tunnel ', with a restricted head room. Eventually, as the dock expanded and the demand for coal grew, every available space in this area was taken up with railway tracks and minor buildings associated with the railway. By the turn of the Century the demand for railway tracks seems to have been so great that engine sheds were taken down and others built nearer the dock. The Cogan spur road has recently been constructed across this area and the river, to link with the peripheral distributor road.

Area 5 - North of the dock :

After the dock was opened, various small landing stages were built at the side of the river and all available space became filled with railway lines. At one stage there were twelve lines on the north quay of the dock. There was room to build a pumping engine house at the west end of the extended dock but subsequent developments, such as the construction of a "slipway and grid irons", were made possible only by the tipping of fill material into the river. At the end of the last Century a "seamens' church and institute" was built opposite the lock gates, near the entrance to the pedestrian subway under the river. An access track was constructed linking the pedestrian tunnel with the bottom of Paget Road which climbs steeply up the escarpment. The track crossed over the drawbridge in the lock.

The engine house constructed near the end of the original dock had to be extended and it was not demolished until after the 1950's. Various small buildings were erected as the railway lines were reduced in number and when the access road was built in the early 1980's it was necessary to demolish about 10 such buildings.