Thanks Bob, for this inspiring story. I am looking forward to visiting my childhood playground Penarth later this year having migrated down under back in 1967. How things have changed since the days when I could hitch a naughty ride to Lavernock in the engine room of the old steam trains.

Lovely video and worth waiting for. Thank you Bob.

@bobsrailrelics

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Thank you, enjoyed making it.

Always interesting, lovely video, Bob! 👌🏼😃

@bobsrailrelics

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Thank you

Thank you Bob for the instructive video today. Very informative. Always looking forward to the new ones! See you on the next. Cheers Bob! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

Great Video Bob ,saw a small prairie at Penarth dock in my younger days !

bob love your vids so fascinating i used to live in Cogan and never knew that the snowdrop was old Penarth dock station

@bobsrailrelics

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Many thanks for the feedback.

When I first lived in Penarth in 1963 there was still enough traffic at Llandough sidings and Penarth dock that a pilot loco was stationed there. It also got occasional use banking the rare freight trains up the bank to Penarth. The tunnel between the stations was still open then.

@bobsrailrelics

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They could do with having it there to give the 769's a push 😁

@richardsanders7906

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@@bobsrailrelics 🤣🤣

Interesting video, I have heard of Penarth Dock Station and would had visited it last year, if my CrossCountry Train wasn't cancelled at Birmingham

I can remember sitting in my post office van having lunch and watching them fill in Penarth dock in the 70s, (I only took photos in those days when I went on holiday lol ) what a lot of people may not realise is that the dock was about twice the size it is now and used to go all the way to to where the Oystercatcher pub is today

@bobsrailrelics

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I remember a friend talking about the ships that were stored in there that they used to play on. As you say it was a big space.

Brilliant video thanks Bob. I work on the trains now and was told that there used to be a station opposite Cogan and quite often stand at that signal waiting at Cogan Junction to rejoin the line to Cardiff. Amazing to see.

@bobsrailrelics

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Hope that has helped locate it for next time you pass.

About the time of the Ely Tidal Harbour & Railway Company appeared on the scene, noting its link with the Taff Vale line. Something very significant occurred about that time, and there exists compelling evidence of this for all who care to find it.

Nice one, Bob. I remember the Penarth Dock station, but I did not know there had been one at Llandough. I wonder if it served the nearby Llandough Hospital? The Ely river has fair sized tide movements (nearly went aground in my boat once) so it might have affected port operations. The beach at Penarth is covered with pebbles and always has been within my memory, but I did once see an old GWR poster advertising Penarth's golden sands so something must have changed before I was born- perhaps the dock construction altered the sea currents? Looking forward to your e-bike ride along the railway path.

@bobsrailrelics

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Llandough was such an odd choice for a station. It's a fair trek up the hill to the hospital and village. I can only ever remember Penarth with pebbles, I think the GWR advertising people may have been employing some poetic license! Thanks for watching

@grangetowncardiff6935

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I used to go with family to Penarth in the 1950's!!! No sign of "golden sands" Bit of mud under the stones, but no golden sands.

@richardsanders7906

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Llandough hospital didn't open until 1930 so the halt was long gone then.

Excellent! Thanks Bob, Penarth is particularly close to my Rail Heart so it's always good to learn more! If you ever need some company on that walk/bike ride round to the Bay let me know 😉

@bobsrailrelics

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Will do. 👍

Did the Barry line connect to the Taff Vale at Cogan Junction in 1888? The original Cogan branch of the Barry Railway terminated there when services began in December 1888. The through service to Cardiff Riverside did not begin until August 1893 but it's possible that the connection existed before then.

@bobsrailrelics

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I'll have to look that one up.

I have saved this for another time. I have a problem with Google. Every single time 'Updating your typing experience' until there is 'Insufficient internal data' and the whole thing stops. If anyone else viewing this has the same let me know if you know how to stop it.

@MervynPartin

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I don't have that particular problem, but if you are using an older machine, a clean-up of the memory (particularly the amount of memory used in cache) and removal of unused programs might help, . There are some useful guides on KZread and it helped to prolong the life of my old laptop, until I could get a new one. Liron Segev has a useful channel, but there are others.