Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Taff Vale Railway Viaduct over River Taff
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Coed-pen-maen, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, designated on 26 February 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 February 2001
- Locality
- Coed-pen-maen
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Community
- Pontypridd
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61090, -3.33283
- Cadw reference
- 24849
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 14 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the River Taff approximately 0.75km NNE of Pontypridd Bridge and immediately N of the White Bridge.
History
Dated 1885 and part of an extension of the Taff Vale Railway to serve Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd.
Exterior
A 3-bay girder viaduct on tapering rock-faced sandstone piers. The piers have rounded cutwaters at the base and projecting bands below the top. On top of the piers are cast iron parapet piers with saddleback copings. These piers bear in relief the date and the legend 'TVR' on alternate faces. The steel girder deck has a latticework steel parapet. These parapets terminate in rectangular stone piers with conglomerate coping stones. The abutments are of rock-faced stone with a band of red conglomerate below the top. They comprise splayed walls retaining the embankment on both sides, of which the W abutment is more substantial as the ground is steeper.
The deck carries an iron pipe but the rails have been taken up.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved steel girder viaduct, a type characteristic of the late C19 but now extremely rare in S Wales.
Nearby in the register
- White Bridge (also known as Berw Bridge)Transportunder 1 mi
- Railway Bridge over Graig-yr-Hesg Road, including integral stone drainage channelTransportunder 1 mi
- Eglwysbach Surgery (formerly Capel Goffa)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Coed y Lan Comprehensive Lower School, including rear science block and gymnasiumEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.