Originally Posted by
Enoch Mort
Yes, it ran down past the PLAYING FIELD and crossed Newport Road over a bridge and then crossed the South Wales Main Line at the back of Spring Gardens Terrace. It then ran down towards Roath Dock between Moorland Road and Splott Park in parallel with the GWR Roath Dock Branch which left the main line at Pengam Junction opposite the Newport Road Bus and Tram Depot.
If you are familiar with the Rhymney Line, south of Heath High Level where the line goes under Highfields Road you will see a brick wall with a raised track bed in front of a large retaining brick wall. That raised track bed gets higher as the Rhymney Line drops towards Queen St Station. The track bed ends as it reaches Cathays Cemetery. It was a proposed link to the Roath Branch to allow coal to get from the Rhymney Valley direct to Roath Dock. The plan never got off the ground but tracks had been laid on it and it was used as a siding for many years, specifically for carriages. The tracks were lifted when Heath Junction ( to what was the Coryton Line formerly the Cardiff Railway) was moved 300m north ( now the City Line) and the sidings land that was surplus to requirements was sold off for housing.
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