TAFF-VALE RAILWAY, a railway in Glamorgan; from Merthyr-Tydvil, down the valley of the Taff, to Cardiff docks, with two short branches. It was authorized in 1836; it has an aggregate of 54 miles; it. includes, by lease, the Aberdare and the Penarth lines; and it has connexion, by working, with the Llantrissant and Taff Vale and the Cowbridge.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))