The Port of Cardiff (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... Harbour will be dealt with in the same way, so that the result cannot but be satisfactory to the reputation and best interests of the port. Meantime a very large mountain of recrimination has been reared upon an insignificant molehill of fact. The greatest sufferers have, perhaps, been the two pilots who, whether from error of judgment or otherwise, refused to comply with the order of the dockmaster. Doubtless, too, neighbouring ports will have benefitted by the damaging statements made by interested parties; but now when matters are adjusted and the truth is more clearly discerned, the reputation of the port--as unrivalled in the ease of its approaches as for the extent of its docks--will very soon be re-established. A port may have a good harbour and docks, but if destitute of easy and ready access to inland places of commercial note it will simply be a place limited to the personal necessities of its own population and that of the immediate neighbourhood. A notable instance of that kind is Milford Haven, which, up till recent years, had not a railway to connect it with the inland populations, and now seems too far from them. But Cardiff is eminently well " placed" in that respect. In the fore-front of her railway communications is the trunk line of the "Great Western," which at the distance of 170 miles on the east connects her with London, and the intermediate towns. The journey to the metropolis is five to six hours; to Birmingham, about five hours; to Liverpool, eight hurs; and to Manchester, eight hours. So that a passenger arriving by a "Liner" from New York at Cardiff would be enabled to reach Manchester as soon as via Liverpool, and Birmingham about five hours sooner. On the west, the same line of railway connects Ca...