Cathays railway works

The original locomotive works and drawing offices of the TVR were located in the West Yard of Cardiff Docks, co-located there so that use could be made of the local boiler makers skills.

They hence sold off the business and leased the site to the Pullman Company Ltd, who maintained their own carriages along with some private owner wagons and BR stock.

[1] Located on the southside of the tracks to the carriage and wagon works, parallel to Colum Road, it was the largest railway depot on the TVR.

The GWR had supplied a standard-pattern over-grider 55 feet (17 m) pattern railway turntable, which was never extended as it could cope with the tank engines allocated to the site.

[2] The site of the former depot was left as scrub land until the late 1980s, when redevelopment started with the creation of the new Colum Drive, which runs parallel and adjacent to the railway line.

Ex-GWR Collett -designed 5600 Class 0-6-2T No.6682 simmers in April 1951, outside the former TVR railway depot at Cathays
The site today, 15 September 2007. To the left is Colum Drive, marking the site of the earlier demolished Cathays depot. To the right is a Lidl store, a later development on the site of the former carriage and wagon works. Beyond the store is a newly developed student accommodation block