Talk:Quakers Yard

I have removed two unsourced assertions from under the sub-heading 'Railways:

(1) It seems highly unlikely that the railway was ever used to convey coal to 'the Quakers'. I have found it difficult to track down an authority on this, but Quakerism had become a very small movement in this part of Wales by the middle (?) of the 18th century, due largely to persecution and emigration (see e.g. the entries for Nonconformity in Wales, or Rowland Ellis). The Meeting in Quaker's Yard must surely have disappeared before the coming of the railway, c.1840? It would seem that Borrow did not mention it in 1854: http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/quakers_yard.htm. (2) The line served by Quaker's Yard Station (formerly Low Level) is still in use so it cannot form part of the Taff Trail. Which line has now been converted into this trail? http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/quakers_yard.htm would suggest that it was the tramway from the Penydarren Ironworks.Ntmr (talk) 13:25, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

The name "Quaker's Yard" pre-dates the railway by about a century. The station isn't nearby, but this was the nearest place with any sort of recognised name.

Yes, the Taff Trail goes under Goitre Coed viaduct, which is the Merthyr Tramroad, not the Taff Vale Railway or its branches. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:17, 30 March 2016 (UTC)