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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on No75 Wells Street. It marks a point 7.516m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 15 Oct 2017
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Ghost sign on Wells Street
Actually there are two ghost signs here – one old sign for an oil stores and one more recent for the previous occupant of the shop unit
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 4 Nov 2013
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Ninian Park Road, Cardiff
A long row of houses on the north side of Ninian Park Road, viewed looking east from the zebra crossing opposite Littleton Street.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
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Kitchener Road
Suburban street with brick terraced housing in the Riverside area of Cardiff. The street is presumably named after WW1 field marshal and statesman, Lord Kitchener.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 27 May 2007
0.09 miles
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Canton Depot
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 29 May 2022
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on No80 Albert Street. It marks a point 7.559m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 15 Oct 2017
0.11 miles
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Canton rail maintenance yard
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 26 Jul 2000
0.11 miles
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A 'Hall' in the Canton Locomotive Yard, Cardiff
view eastward, towards Cardiff General station. Canton was the main Locomotive Depot at Cardiff, on the ex-GWR South Wales main line, about ¾-mile to the west on the Down side. In June 1950 the Depot (coded 86C in the Newport District) had a large allocation of 119, for varied main-line and some local duties, comprising:- 5 4-6-2 (BR Standard), 46 4-6-0 (41 GW, 5 BR Standard), 25 2-8-0 (15 GW, 10 ex-WD), 4 2-6-0, 9 2-8-0T, 1 2-6-2T, 11 0-6-2T, 18 0-6-0T. (These included a sprinkling (6) of engines from the former Valleys Railways). Featured here is 4-6-0 No. 5988 'Bostock Hall' (built 11/39, withdrawn 10/65).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Apr 1951
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New 'Manor' 4-6-0 at Cardiff Canton Locomotive Depot
Built very recently in 12/50, Collett-design 4-6-0 No. 7828 'Odney Manor' would last until 9/65, surviving to be preserved on the West Somerset Railway. Canton was a large Depot, the principal (main-line) one in Cardiff (BR code 86C), with a 1950 allocation of 107 locomotives:- 44 4-6-0, 12 2-8-0 (1 ex-WD), 4 2-6-0, 2 0-6-0, 2 2-8-2T, 12 2-8-0T, 1 2-6-2T, 11 0-6-2T and 19 0-6-0T.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Apr 1951
0.12 miles
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Smeaton Street, Cardiff
Viewed from Ninian Park Road.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
0.12 miles