Transport Deep Navigation Colliery

british railways class 37 in charge of merry-go-round train group of coal hoppers, freshly loaded deep navigation colliery, april 1987

located adjacent quakers yard railway station, colliery had access cardiff docks via both great western s taff vale railway, , midland railway s rhymney railway. rhymney railway gave access north brecon via brecon , merthyr railway, , onwards midlands via mid-wales railway.

harris had series of private owner wagons built gloucester railway carriage , wagon company, considerably reduced transport costs. in later years, british railways class 37 locomotives rostered cardiff canton , barry depots, placed in charge of coal hoppers on merry-go-round train, transport coal aberthaw power station.