Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
23233
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/04/2000  
Date of Amendment
28/04/2000  
Name of Property
Railway Viaduct over River Taff (partly in Llantwit Fardre community)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff  
Community
Taffs Well  
Town
Pontypridd  
Locality
Taffs Well  
Easting
311818  
Northing
184051  
Street Side
 
Location
Immediately N of the recreation ground adjoining Fynnon Taff Primary School.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
The Taff Vale Railway was an independent railway promoted by the industrialists of S Wales to avoid congestion on the Glamorganshire Canal. The company was incorporated in 1836, and the line was opened from Cardiff to Abercynon in 1840 and extended to Merthyr in 1841. It was single track with passing places, but doubling began in 1845 and was complete by 1861. A great increase in traffic movements led, in 1885, to a quadrupling of the line as far as Pontypridd. The viaduct belongs to this campaign, as it is shown with 4 tracks on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey of 1900.  

Exterior
Five-arch viaduct of coursed rock-faced stone. The bridge is at an angle to the river and the arches are skewed. The W arch spans a riverside path, while the remaining arches span the river. Wide segmental arches of voussoirs and tall projecting keystones with margin drafting. White brick to soffits of arches. Rounded cutwaters to N side only, with domed caps. Moulded stone string course with margin drafting, and saddleback coping to parapets in a similar style. Piers with caps to abutments.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an unaltered railway viaduct of the later C19, retaining its character, and reflecting the massive expansion in railway traffic, largely caused by coal exporting.  

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