Quote Originally Posted by Enoch Mort View Post
It was the Roath Branch. It came off the TVR at College Road, Whitchurch. There were sidings at Gabalfa where the iinterchange is now and it followed what is now Eastern Avenue as far as Lake Rd West/ East where it carried on behind Ty Draw Rd under Penylan hill ( you can still see the railway bridge on both sides of the road). It then carried on down to the docks. It closed in 1968 and the sidings at Gabalfa were filled in when Eastern Avenue and the interchange was constructed
Well done Enoch. The line ran along the side of the Harlequins playing fields which was Cardiff High School's home ground and I remember seeing trains going past whilst I was playing rugby. It ran along the bottom of Waterloo Gardens then before new houses were built on the old track bed.