WPW008615 WALES. View of Cardiff Power Station, Roath, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW008615] View of Cardiff Power Station, Roath, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW008615
Date
Link Coflein Archive Item 6378217
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 320559, 177942
Longitude / Latitude -3.1444582662442, 51.494348909318
National Grid Reference ST206779

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Pengam Sidings. The site later became Pengam Freightliner Terminal but is now (save for 3 sidings) a housing estate.

Adrian
Sunday 28th of June 2015 11:06:35 AM

Fantasma
Thursday 29th of May 2014 09:40:31 PM

Fantasma
Thursday 29th of May 2014 09:39:00 PM
Cooling towers

Fantasma
Thursday 29th of May 2014 03:51:19 PM
If this is Cardiff Power Station (Roath) this will be the Baguley electric locomotive that worked here until it was scrapped in 1965

Roger M.
Saturday 11th of August 2012 11:15:41 PM
Further information (from the Industrial Railway Society book "Industrial Locomotives of Mid & South Glamorgan"): The Baguley electric locomotive was delivered in 1931 - it replaced a similar locomotive built by Bruce Peebles & Co of Edinburgh that was delivered in 1903. It's not possible to make out definitively which of the locomotives appears in this photo, if so it would help to date it.

Roger M.
Sunday 12th of August 2012 09:48:18 PM
A newspaper/general goods seller was located here for many years

kictm1
Sunday 5th of August 2012 11:27:46 AM
GWR South Wales Main Line Newport - Cardiff

Class31
Monday 9th of July 2012 01:19:00 PM

Class31
Monday 9th of July 2012 01:18:09 PM
Roath Power Station

Class31
Monday 9th of July 2012 01:17:38 PM

Class31
Monday 9th of July 2012 01:17:05 PM

Class31
Monday 9th of July 2012 01:15:32 PM

User Comment Contributions

This picture was taken before 1941 when construction of new concrete cooling towers (shown on image WAW010638) commenced. The cooling tower replacement was part of an extension to the whole power station.

Fantasma
Thursday 29th of May 2014 09:38:16 PM
Thanks everyone for contributing to this image, it's been incredibly helpful as it has now been confirmed as Roath Power station and will be updated in due course.



Natasha Scullion

Britain from Above Activity Officer

Natasha Scullion
Wednesday 10th of April 2013 05:20:16 PM
Not sure why this one comes up when I search for Peebles

swansojb
Friday 19th of October 2012 04:23:56 PM
This is a view of the Roath Power station on the outskirts of Cardiff at the junction of Newport road and Rover way. View taken looking East.The Tram depot became a bus depot.

Class31
Wednesday 18th of July 2012 06:38:09 PM
There are two trams alongside the depot building. The one nearest to the road (the smallest of the two)is undoubtedly the water (and track scrubbing) car no 131. That being so this is the one that is preserved and recently restored to operational condition at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire

Michael Waring
Wednesday 18th of July 2012 06:38:09 PM