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The Gwaelod y Garth iron works railway and the feeder and the Barry Railway Viaduct. |
Princess May, one of the locomotives used to move wagons at the Gwaelod y Garth foundry. |
| If the opening of the Glamorganshire Canal in 1795 was a huge advancement in the transportation of minerals then the advent of the Taff Vale Railway in the 1840s was truly revolutionary. The rail network that developed between the Garth and Craig yr Allt in the Taff Valley became very complex with competing rail companies. These railways served the Taff Valley from Merthyr Tydfil and the Rhondda, the Cardiff Line, the Rhymney Line and the Barry Line. The Barry Railway developed in the 1880's when the Walnut Tree Viaduct across the Taff Valley at Gwaelod y Garth was built and the new railway from Barry to the Rhondda through Creigiau was opened. |  |
